A North Korean student in Pyongyang, April 2017 | Image: NK News
A North Korean student attending a college in the Russia Far East has gone missing this month, according to a Russian nongovernmental organization, in a possible defection attempt following the disappearance of two other DPRK citizens in June.
Twenty-five-year-old Kim Tae Sung disappeared on July 8 in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, according to a poster spread on Russian social media by Liga Spas, an organization that helps locate missing persons.
A North Korean student attending a college in the Russia Far East has gone missing this month, according to a Russian nongovernmental organization, in a possible defection attempt following the disappearance of two other DPRK citizens in June.
Twenty-five-year-old Kim Tae Sung disappeared on July 8 in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, according to a poster spread on Russian social media by Liga Spas, an organization that helps locate missing persons.
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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.