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Hacking Not Raised By Biden & Moon In
Presser Featuring UFOs & Bibi Talk
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 21 – With South Korea's
Moon Jae-In headed to DC,
Inner City Press on May 20
asked noted North Korea expert
Jean Lee about DPRK's hacking
and what the Biden
Administration will do.
Question video here,
follow up here,
full video on Wilson Center
site.
Now on May
21, after the summit, Moon and
Joe Biden held a presser and
Inner City Press live tweeted
it, here:
Biden announces
Ambassador Sung Kim as special
envoy to the DPRK. Still no
mentioning of hacking, or
crypto / sanctions
Biden mentions
K-Pop, but still not the SONY
hack, or anything about North
Korea other than the post to
Ambassador Sung Kim. Did call
Burma a junta
Biden:
"First question, I'm told, is
Mary Alice Parks of ABC News."
Question is on Israel. Inner
City Press @innercitypress ·
15m Biden: I think my party
still supports Israel.
Mary Alice Parks:
Can I asked a question of
President Moon? Have you been
pressured to support Taiwan?
Biden (to Moon) "Good luck."
Moon: Fortunately there wasn't
pressure.
Voice: We have a
question from a Korean
journalist over here. Two from
the left. I
t's Yonhap News -
says, I understanding Israel
and Palestine is important,
but the North Korea nuclear
issue is equally important.
What is the plan?
Moon: Very
calibrated and gradual. Very
flexible. In terms of the
timeline for denuclearization
of the Korean peninsula, we
are of same mind. Biden: We
closely studied what others
tried, what worked and what
hasn't worked. Nothing.
On. Hacking.
Biden: Next
question is Nancy Cordes of
CBS. Cordes says one (North)
Korea Q, one on Israel. Biden:
I would not give Kim Jong Un
all that he is looking
for.
Cordes: Your
relationship with Netanyahu?
Biden: We got ceasefire
because I keep things private.
Biden: Bibi
Netanyahu has never broken his
word to me. Abbas must be
recognized as leader of the
Palestinians. Bibi, the Prime
Minister, knows my views. I
spent a lot time with El Sisi
on the phone, they've done a
commendable job
Voice: Do
we not have female journalists
from Korea? A lady? From
Korea Herald.
What about vaccines. Any good
news for people of Korea?
Moon: For the
sake of the ROK-US alliance,
President Biden will vaccine
the servicemembers in
Korea. Biden: We'll do
550,000.
Presser ends with
question about UFOs, and
applause. Nothing on
DRPK hacking.
On May 20,
Jean Lee, who is working on a
multi-part podcast with BCC
called The Lazarus Heist, told
Inner City Press it is not
possible for the US to
prosecute about North Korea's
computer misdeeds. But beyond
cases in the federal courts in
California, there's the
prosecution in SDNY of Virgil
Griffith, which Inner City
Press first reported on when
he came through the
Magistrates Court during the
holidays.
Virgil Griffith, charged with
violating North Korea
sanctions in connection with a
crypto-currency conference
there, now faces trial in
September 2021 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
This emerged at a
telephone conference in the
case on December 22.
Griffith's defense lawyer
Brian E. Klein spoke among
other things about filings not
yet placed in the public
docket, only emailed to SDNY
Judge P. Kevin Castel.
On February
11, Judge Castel held a
proceeding about who knew what
before and at the conference
Griffith spoke at. A
stipulation or agreement has
been proposed, essentially
that some people know, but the
DPRK / Kim government as such
did not. Inner City Press live
tweeted the first proceeding,
here.
And on
February 23 the second
proceeding, in two parts, here.
On March
12, citing the swearing into
the office of US Attorney
General of Merrick Garland the
day before, the US Attorney's
Office has asked for a three
week delay for its Classified
Information Procedures Act
filings, since Garland must
sign them on personal
knowledge, under US v. Aref.
Others might wonder if the
change in Administration might
result in a changed
prosecutorial stance in this
and certain other cases. But,
three weeks - granted on March
15:
"MEMO ENDORSEMENT
as to Virgil Griffith on re:
[103] LETTER MOTION filed by
USA addressed to Judge P.
Kevin Castel from AUSAs
Kimberly Ravener & Kyle
Wirshba dated March 12, 2021
re: CIPA Motion Schedule.
Pursuant to CES's
instructions, the Government
respectfully requests that the
Court extend the date of its
CIPA motion until April 9,
2021. ENDORSEMENT: OK.
Application Granted. So
Ordered: (Signed by Judge P.
Kevin Castel).
On June 1,
Griffith's lawyer filed a
motion to dismiss for lack of
venue, stating that Griffith's
email to the North Korea
Mission in New York, responded
to, might not have been
"received" in New York. Inner
City Press is tweeting the
photo here.
Watch this site.
On
May 28, from Judge Castel
again to his credit, this:
"ORDER as to Virgil Griffith.
The government advises that
the defendant consents to
public disclosure of his ex
parte and in camera
application for a subpoena
pursuant to Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 17 (the
Application) but does not
consent to advance disclosure
of the Application to the
government. To enable the
government to intelligently
state its position on public
disclosure, defendant shall
transmit the Application to
the government by 1 p.m.
today, May 28, 2020. The
government shall state whether
it has any objection to public
disclosure by 1 p.m. on May
29, 2020. The Court will
thereafter rule on whether the
Application should be publicly
filed (Signed by Judge P.
Kevin Castel on 5/28/20)(jw)."
Watch this site.
The case is US v.
Griffith, 20-cr-15
(Castel).
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