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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 evacuates North Korean diplomats from Syria following Assad’s ousterForeign ministry says it transported DPRK staff to Moscow, throwing Pyongyang’s operations in Damascus into question
Russia evacuated North Korean diplomats from Syria on Sunday amid fallout from the fall of the Assad regime, according to Moscow, throwing the DPRK’s future operations in the Middle Eastern country into question. A Russian foreign ministry press release stated that a special flight by the Russian Aerospace Forces transported “some of the personnel of Russian foreign missions in Damascus to Moscow’s Chkalovsky Airport.” “Employees of the diplomatic missions of Belarus, the DPRK, and Abkhazia were also evacuated.” The notice did not mention if any North Koreans stayed behind or if the entire staff of the DPRK mission left the © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |