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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 U.N. committee has expressed concern about the detention of North Korean escapees upon their arrival in South Korea, calling for the ROK to enact legal safeguards for defectors and guarantee that they will not be subject to forced repatriation.
The U.N. Human Rights Committee made the recommendations in its Universal Periodic Review published on Friday, after a human rights group raised the issue to the committee.