Jeju’s aid shipment to North Korea puts a shadowy broker back in the spotlight (opens in new tab)

A South Korean resort island’s sudden announcement that it supplied humanitarian aid to North Korea has brought a familiar name back into the limelight: Ri Ho Nam, a controversial DPRK middleman who has facilitated inter-Korean exchanges for over three decades. The government of Jeju Island revealed on Monday that it had sent around $100,000 worth […]