North Korea has refused to accept food aid from the United States despite facing chronic food shortages, a US state department spokesman has said.No skin off my fore. We've got enough po' folks here at home.
The decision came amid mounting tensions over a planned rocket launch by North Korea, as also its speed of nuclear disablement. "North Korea has informed the United States that it does not wish to receive additional US food assistance at this time," Robert Wood, a US state department spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Let them eat dirt.
He said that Washington would work with non-governmental groups "to ensure that food that is already in North Korea is distributed to the intended recipients".
Precisely why do we care?
Pyongyang has relied on outside aid to help feed its 23 million people since famine reportedly killed as many as two million in the 1990s, a result of natural disasters and mismanagement. There was no immediate comment from Pyongyang on the reasons for refusing the aid.