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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 Trump names key official in past diplomacy with North Korea as security adviserAlex Wong helped organize summits with Kim Jong Un and will now shape foreign policy as assistant to the president U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named a former official who played a key role in his two summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to advise him on national security, the latest sign that Trump could seek to revive diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang. The former president announced his appointment of Alex Wong to serve as principal deputy national security adviser and assistant to the president on social media on Saturday. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |