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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
A UN Committee has added to the growing list of approvals recently for humanitarian activities in North Korea, granting two more this week for agencies carrying out water sanitation projects in the DPRK.
The two organizations, World Vision International (WVI) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-linked Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA), received approval of humanitarian exemption requests by the 1718 Sanctions Committee in letters dated January 31.