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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a former 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.
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News UN report betrays infighting over humanitarian impact of North Korea sanctionsDisagreements on Panel of Experts result in no analysis on how sanctions affect DPRK’s people, advance draft states
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. Two unnamed members objected to the header “the unintended impact of sanctions,” while two Panel members wanted the © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |