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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.
A team of North Korean medical workers arrived in southeast Libya on this week to work in a hospital there, according to the medical facility on Tuesday, in apparent violation of international sanctions on DPRK laborers abroad.
The 38-member team will provide medical care at the Martyr Attia Al-Kaseh Teaching Hospital in Kufra city, the hospital announced on social media. The crew includes a surgeon, pediatrician, cardiologist, obstetrician, otolaryngologist, dentist and 12 nurses, according to the hospital.