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Min Chao Choy
Min Chao Choy is a data journalist for NK News and NK Pro. Choy specializes in news and analysis relating to DPRK shipping and aviation movements, sanctions, and cyber-security.
Whether they be football players in Europe, construction workers in Russia or healthcare staff in Nigeria, North Koreans working abroad all have something in common: They were supposed to go home by Dec. 2019.
Now, one healthcare professional has told NK News that some North Koreans are still working in Nigeria despite the U.N. ban on overseas DPRK labor, which is meant to cut off cash flows to the country’s nuclear program.