Spanish views from a small town

This week there was a roundup of thirteen people for weapons trafficking in Spain. They would buy weapons that were no longer in working order on the internet from other countries. (It's legal because the weapons cannot be fired and therefore do not need a license. They are treated as collectors' items.) The problem is that once on Spanish soil, they would take them apart and tweak them to be able to fire (it's more difficult that it sounds). Then they would be sold. That part was illegal. Among the people arrested was Alejandro Cao de Benós from Tarragona. The only reason he was mentioned is because he is the volunteer "ambassador" of North Korea. When he first popped up on the news, a Spaniard dressed in North Korean military uniform, attesting to the people's glories of North Korea, most took him as a joke. Others thought it only right that the only Western person who voluntarily embraced the shuttered society of a country that revolved around the persona...