A 63-year-old Korean-American man was recently evacuated from North Korea's Rason Special Economic Zone after suffering a stroke there, NK News has learned.
Leaving through the Tumangang-Khasan border crossing, the man – whose name medical sources did not divulge – continued to the Khasan Central Regional Hospital in the Russian port town of Slavyanka, where he was admitted to the hospital’s reanimation department in late October.
A 63-year-old Korean-American man was recently evacuated from North Korea's Rason Special Economic Zone after suffering a stroke there, NK News has learned.
Leaving through the Tumangang-Khasan border crossing, the man – whose name medical sources did not divulge – continued to the Khasan Central Regional Hospital in the Russian port town of Slavyanka, where he was admitted to the hospital’s reanimation department in late October.
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