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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
The U.N. Panel of Experts responsible for investigating North Korea sanctions violations may not include analysis on the humanitarian impact of sanctions in its forthcoming report, an advanced copy shows, amid disagreements between country representatives.
The eight-person Panel — which includes members from the U.S., China, Russia, the U.K., France and other countries — reached a consensus on the humanitarian consequences of sanctions but could not agree on the wording of the report, according to a draft seen by NK News.