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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. said Wednesday shipped a range of vaccines to North Korea last year, along with nutritional aid to support nearly 1 million pregnant women and children.
UNICEF dispatched vaccines for tuberculosis, rubella, polio and Pentavalent diseases, the organization states in their East Asia and Pacific Region Humanitarian Situation Report for the last quarter of 2022. The report does not mention COVID-19 vaccines.