From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: In February, a gang of armed men took a North Korean official hostage and demanded that he defect. When he refused, their plan fell apart, and they fled. Who were they, and why did they risk everything on this wild plot? By Giles Tremlett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:40.0	This story was a very bizarre event that happened in Madrid early in 2019.
1:47.0	The Korean embassy was assaulted by a group of people who tied up the embassy staff.
1:53.6	There were Americans and South Koreans
1:56.2	who stormed into the embassy, brandishing knives.
2:00.1	It was bizarre in many other ways.
2:02.4	This was still Trump time. It was
2:04.4	when Trump time, when Trump was trying to negotiate deals with North Korea, so people didn't really
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