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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 Russia sent over 1K tons of wheat flour to North Korea, state agency saysApril shipment is latest in series of grain exports to DPRK in recent months, as Pyongyang stresses food production
Russia sent over a thousand tons of wheat flour to North Korea in April, according to the Russian government, the latest in a series of publicized grain shipments since earlier this year. In a press release, Russia’s federal veterinary customs agency said on Friday that the Siberian region of Kuzbass exported 1,280 tons of wheat flour to the DPRK out of a total of 19,918 tons of grain products sent to seven Asian and eastern European countries. Statements by Russia’s veterinary agency currently offer some of the only available data points on North Korea-Russia trade, after Moscow announced in © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |