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Bryan Betts
Bryan Betts is the Managing Editor of NK News. He has covered the Koreas for Yonhap News Agency, The Diplomat and Korea Exposé and previously worked as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina and New Mexico.
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COVID-19 Germany wins sanctions exemption to send COVID test equipment to North KoreaUN grants 9-month window for ‘export of medical equipment for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in the DPRK’ The United Nations has granted a new sanctions exemption to Germany to send medical equipment to North Korea “for the prevention and control of COVID-19,” according to the U.N. website, with the planned shipment to take place “as soon as possible.” The country will have until April 23, 2022 to deliver “six units of a Rotor-Disc 100 Starter Kit” to North Korea’s Ministry of Public Health, the U.N. Security Council’s (UNSC) 1718 sanctions committee said in a letter published on Wednesday. The Permanent Mission of Germany to the U.N. requested the exemption on July 16. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |