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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.
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News North Korea accuses human rights group of being ‘anti-DPRK front’ for WashingtonDPRK chafes at claims of abuses as US-based organization calls for Pyongyang to engage on human rights issues North Korea’s foreign ministry on Tuesday accused a Washington-based human rights group of being “under direct control of the U.S. government,” in its latest attempt to discredit organizations that document abuses and push for human rights protections in the DPRK. The statement attributed to Kim Chung Hyok, a researcher at North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies, called the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) an “anti-DPRK front organization” — a label that the human rights group quickly rejected. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |