No UN or NGO workers left in North Korea after more expats depart Pyongyang

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No UN or NGO workers left in North Korea after more expats depart Pyongyang

The loss of humanitarian workers could have a massive effect on North Korea in the near future

Chad O'Carroll March 18, 2021

No UN or NGO workers left in North Korea after more expats depart Pyongyang

NK News | Coach view of a local North Korean bus, Jan. 10, 2018

A group of diplomats, aid workers and other expats left Pyongyang on Thursday, informed sources told NK News, which means that no U.N. foreign staff or international NGO staff are left in the country.

Around two dozen nationals from the Czech Republic, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Vietnam – as well as two World Food Programme (WFP) staff members and one Concern Worldwide representative – left Pyongyang by road in the early hours of Thursday morning. They headed towards Sinuiju, the North Korean city closest to the Chinese port of Dandong.

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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.

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