@soryang

Chinese embassy, and can't reall if I even ever knew about the Korean embassyh attack.

be well and have a good one

#4...of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

I also remember the attack on the North Korean embassy in February 2019 five days before the Hanoi Summit. The evidence suggested that Adrian Hong, and the other nine people involved, were sponsored by a resourceful intelligence organization. Hong had a previous relationship with NGOs assisting North Korean defectors. Two South Korean national security analysts concluded the CIA was involved. The people who led the attack provided the files and electronic devices they stole from the embassy to the FBI as soon as they returned to the US.

The previous DPRK ambassador to Madrid, Kim Hyok-chol, was one of the principal negotiators for North Korea leading up to the Hanoi summit. The former South Korean NIS analyst I followed at the time on Channel A News believed that the Madrid embassy break in played a role in the failure of the Hanoi summit. Of two identified members of group involved, Adrian Hong was a former Yale student, was allegedly a Mexican national, and the other, Christopher Ahn was described as a former US Marine. North Korean defector groups routinely have ties to intelligence organizations. Hong had formed his own group LINK earlier to assist North Korean defectors.

Analyst, Sin In-kyun doubted that the group Free Chosun's web site was written by actual Koreans with a mastery of written Korean. Adrian was put on a FBI wanted poster after he came back to the US immediately after the embassy takeover. Spain wanted extradition for various felonies committed in the embassy attack by the group's members. Ahn was apprehended in the US and the District Court's decision to certify the extradition is being appealed.

According to this report as of Dec. 2022, Hong is in hiding. I don't think anyone is looking for him very hard.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1702962/kim-jong-un-north-korea-nuc...

Then there was there was the incident over the South China Sea between a Chinese fighter and a US RC-135 on Dec 21, 2022. I find these reports rarely go into enough detail to judge the event. I linked this report because it presents the Chinese view of the incident without editing out the key phrases in the Chinese military statement.

The Chinese military has presented a conflicting account of the incident. Releasing its own video, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command accused the U.S. of deliberately misleading the public, distorting facts, blaming the innocent, and attempting to fool the international community. According to an article published on Jan. 1 by China Military Online, PLA spokesperson Col. Tian Junli stated that Chinese aircraft were deployed to track and monitor the U.S. aircraft, which was conducting close-in reconnaissance near the Paracel Islands (Chinese: Xisha Qundao; Vietnamese: Quần đảo Hoàng Sa). Tian alleges that the U.S. aircraft disregarded repeated warnings from the Chinese pilot, abruptly changed its flight attitude, and forced the Chinese pilot to evade. Tian demanded that the U.S. “restrain the operations of front-line air and naval troops, strictly abide by relevant international laws and agreements, and prevent any accidental event at sea and in the air.” In a press conference on Dec. 30, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin accused the U.S. of frequently deploying ships and aircraft to conduct close-in reconnaissance of China, which jeopardizes Chinese national security. Wang stated that the United States’s “provocative and dangerous moves are the root cause of maritime security issues” and urged the U.S. to stop deflecting blame on China. He affirmed that China will continue to “resolutely defend its sovereignty and security.”

This is the real issue:

While China considers the Paracel Islands part of its sovereign territory, the U.S. considers them merely “occupied” by China and their sovereignty disputed between China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. In furtherance of its commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific and with the aim of keeping sea lanes open for international navigation, the U.S. routinely transits ships and aircraft through disputed areas. China views these freedom of navigation operations as provocations harmful to the peace and stability of the region. In response, the Chinese military has developed a pattern of aggressively intercepting ships and aircraft operating in the vicinity of its maritime claims.

You have to scroll down the page to get this subject:
U.S. and China Spar Over Close Maneuver
https://www.lawfareblog.com/water-wars-japans-defense-buildup-signals-sh...

Yes, when US military warships or military aircraft approach within 12nm of Chinese "islands" in the South China Sea, they will be intercepted and the Chinese will attempt to divert them from the territorial boundary. Usually, the issue is the lack of a defined boundary on an artificial islands created by filling reefs or shoals in China's claimed maritime EEZ. UNCLOS doesn't recognize any territorial claim to an "artificial island." In the past, I've seen video of a US military aircraft approaching close to one of these artificial islands getting warned (in English) by a control tower on the island. Man made islands are treated the same as an oil rig by the US. They get a 500meter zone around them and that's it under UNCLOS. The same thing happens with US military surface vessels, if there is a Chinese warship in the area and will intercept the US warship and attempt to force it to change course at the 12nm limit.

They are not freedom of navigation operations, they are attempts by the US to inject itself into disputes among the states in the region, primarily affecting the Exclusive Economic Zone claims in the area. The US freedom of navigation claims have little to do with freedom of navigation at all. China rarely interferes with passage of commercial maritime trade or flights. It's against their interests to do so. Most interceptions involve fishing vessels in their claimed maritime zone by states with competing claims, or hydrographic surveys which may have a military purpose. China also doesn't want nuclear powered vessels or vessels with nuclear weapons operating in its EEZs.

(edited to correct one error, Adrian Hong went to Yale, but reportedly did not graduate; and one typo, the Chinese fighter aircraft and RC-135 incident was Dec. 21, 2022)

The video below, ALi No One Else, was the OST for the Kdrama of the same name. I thought it was pretty good. There are good English subs.