About the Author
Bryan Betts
Bryan Betts is the Deputy Editor of NK News. He has covered the Koreas for Yonhap News Agency, The Diplomat and Korea Exposé and previously worked as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina and New Mexico.
The United Nations has granted a new sanctions exemption to Germany to send medical equipment to North Korea “for the prevention and control of COVID-19,” according to the U.N. website, with the planned shipment to take place “as soon as possible.”
The country will have until April 23, 2022 to deliver “six units of a Rotor-Disc 100 Starter Kit” to North Korea’s Ministry of Public Health, the U.N. Security Council’s (UNSC) 1718 sanctions committee said in a letter published on Wednesday. The Permanent Mission of Germany to the U.N. requested the exemption on July 16.