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  "id": 7792432,
  "title": "Up to 100,000 NK workers sent abroad, some involved in Russian drone production: report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/up-to-100-000-nk-workers-sent-abroad-some-involved-in-russian-drone-7792432",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T13:27:02.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/northkorea/20260916/up-to-100000-nk-workers-sent-abroad-some-involved-in-russian-drone-production-report"
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  "summary": "North Korea has sent around 100,000 workers abroad, mostly to China and Russia, with some involved in manufacturing military drones at Russian factories in violation of U.N. sanctions, an international monitoring report showed Wednesday. The latest report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) showed that North Korea continues to deploy workers overseas despite a U.N. Security…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Politico EU",
        "title": "Russian drone found off Poland’s coast carried explosive warhead, prosecutor says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/russian-drone-found-off-polands-coast-carried-explosive-warhead",
        "published": "2026-09-16T11:59:09.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Up to 100,000 N.K. workers sent abroad, some involved in Russian drone production: report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/up-to-100-000-n-k-workers-sent-abroad-some-involved-in-russian-drone",
        "published": "2026-09-16T12:00:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Up to 100,000 NK workers sent abroad, some involved in Russian drone production: report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/up-to-100-000-nk-workers-sent-abroad-some-involved-in-russian-drone",
        "published": "2026-09-16T13:17:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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