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Group urges radiation tests for 900 North Korean escapees

FILE - Command post facilities at one of North Korea's nuclear test sites are demolished in Punggye-ri, North Korea, on May 24, 2018. Human rights advocates on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, urged South Korea to offer radiation exposure tests to hundreds of North Korean escapees who had lived near the country’s nuclear testing ground. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP, File) FILE - A guard stands at the entrance of the north tunnel at North Korea's nuclear test site shortly before it was to be blown up in a media tour of dismantling the test site, at Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, on May 24, 2018. Human rights advocates on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, urged South Korea to offer radiation exposure tests to hundreds of North Korean escapees who had lived near the country’s nuclear testing ground. (APTN via AP, File)