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World Food Program Restores N. Korea Food
The World Food Program has resumed food aid to millions of people in North Korea, six weeks after a lack of foreign donations forced it to stop shipments, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday. Contributions from Germany, New Zealand, Canada and Norway have helped restore the flow of aid, the WFP said in a statement released Wednesday from its office in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.Just prolonging the agony. The food agency made an urgent appeal Feb. 9 for more aid to North Korea, saying the agencyâs supplies had nearly run out and it was cutting off food to almost all the 6.5 million people that it feeds there. "We can now resume cereal distributions to most - but not all - of the 6.5 million children, women and elderly identified as particularly needy," said Masood Hyder, WFP representative for North Korea. The North has relied on foreign aid to feed its isolated populace since revealing in the mid-1990s that its agriculture had collapsed after decades of mismanagement and the loss of Soviet subsidies. The concentration camps and the executions donât help, either. Posted by: Steve White 2004-02-25 |
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