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Haitian gang leader survived strike on his home, KBS reports

The report links Salvadoran rocket attacks to the search for four missing aviation technicians and includes earlier coverage of Haiti's widening insecurity.

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0:00Presidency-supplied footage shows rocket strikes; KBS identifies the targets as properties linked to 400 Mawozo leader Wilson Joseph.
0:46Bukele's posts request the property's location before presenting the attack as a promise fulfilled.
1:33Bukele says his mission is rescuing four missing aviation technicians, threatening force if they are not released.
2:23KBS reports mass displacement and an election postponement amid gang control around Haiti's capital.
4:04An October report recounts the technicians' disappearance after their armored vehicle caught fire during a gang attack.
5:18An April report describes violence spreading into rural western Haiti and links greater gang firepower to arms smuggling.

Wilson Joseph, identified in the report as the leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, survived an attack that destroyed his home, according to Associated Press reporting cited by South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) News.

Footage credited on screen to El Salvador's presidency shows a helicopter firing rockets, smoke rising among buildings and people scattering below. KBS says Salvadoran forces targeted Joseph's home and a gang headquarters known as the "House of Death." The opening footage is dated November 8.

The report also shows President Nayib Bukele's social media posts in Haitian Creole. Before the operation, he asked for the property's precise location; afterward, he shared attack footage and said he had kept his promise. Those posts present the president's account of the operation, not an independent assessment of its effects.

KBS connects the military escalation to the disappearance of four Salvadoran aviation technicians deployed to Haiti. It reports that El Salvador subsequently sent about 2,500 additional troops and helicopters. In a speech excerpt, Bukele describes rescuing the technicians as his mission and warns that force will be used if they are not released.

The compilation then broadens beyond the strike. KBS reports that gang control in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, has displaced roughly 1.5 million people and contributed to presidential elections being postponed until July of the following year. It also notes concerns that intensified military operations could worsen the bloodshed. Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé is reported to be planning a visit to El Salvador to discuss troop deployments and joint operations.

The later footage is explicitly archival: an October segment describes the technicians going missing after their armored vehicle caught fire during a gang attack, followed by UN Security Council discussion and calls for their safe return. An April segment covers attacks spreading into rural western Haiti, with journalist Harold Isaac identifying arms smuggling as a source of gangs' increased firepower. The opening report uses an AI-generated news voiceover; later sections include studio reporting.