The embassy believes that foreign diplomats will continue to leave North Korea.

According to the Russian diplomatic mission, less than 290 foreign employees remain in the DPRK. 

"Those leaving the Korean capital can be understood - not everyone can withstand total restrictions unprecedented in their severity, an acute shortage of necessary goods, including medicines, and the inability to solve health problems," the embassy said on Facebook.

The report says that the representative offices of Great Britain, Venezuela, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, France have closed in the DPRK, and all foreign personnel of international humanitarian organizations have left.

“Only nine ambassadors and four chargé d'affaires represent their states here, and the staff of most of the embassies still functioning here has been reduced to a minimum,” the embassy said.

In February, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the return of diplomats from the DPRK.