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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.
Two North Koreans who were seriously injured at a construction site in Russia in 2020 were students, not workers, Russia has told the U.N. Panel of Experts, denying that their presence was a breach of sanctions against hiring DPRK laborers
Moscow’s official response is included in the Panel’s latest report on DPRK sanctions violations, which was published last week.