The ‘Adrian Hong Chang’ accused this week of leading a dramatic break-in at the DPRK embassy in Spain is a U.S.-based human rights activist long involved in North Korea-related issues, multiple sources confirmed to NK News on Wednesday.

Adrian Hong, who the Spanish High Court alleges led a group of ten in the raid, was a founder of the Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) NGO.

From 2015 he served as head of the Joseon Institute, an organization preparing for “increasingly imminent, dramatic change in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).” 

The organization’s website – which appears to have been