Around 40 diplomats and humanitarian workers left North Korea on Wednesday, multiple sources told NK News, leaving only two foreign United Nations-system workers remaining in the country.
Representing the second group of expats to leave Pyongyang within a single month, the group included 10 Russian nationals, eight staff members from the United Nations, the ambassador of Iran, remaining Polish diplomats and all foreign Red Cross staff, according to multiple sources who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
Around 40 diplomats and humanitarian workers left North Korea on Wednesday, multiple sources told NK News, leaving only two foreign United Nations-system workers remaining in the country.
Representing the second group of expats to leave Pyongyang within a single month, the group included 10 Russian nationals, eight staff members from the United Nations, the ambassador of Iran, remaining Polish diplomats and all foreign Red Cross staff, according to multiple sources who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
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Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.