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U.S. cancels food aid to North Korea
Washington Times ^ | 12/3/05 | Nicholas Kralev

Posted on 12/04/2005 12:10:07 PM PST by wagglebee

The Bush administration has canceled a planned shipment of 25,000 tons of food aid to North Korea later this month, citing concerns that the food will not reach those who need it.

"We still think there are serious humanitarian needs in North Korea, but we cannot continue to supply food if we cannot even minimally assure that it will reach its intended recipients," the State Department said yesterday.

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which distributes foreign aid, has been ordered by the North Koreans to cut most of its staff there by the end of December, a move that will substantially reduce its ability to disburse and monitor aid shipments.

Washington sent the first half of a 50,000-ton pledge for 2005 in the spring and had planned to deliver the rest, until Pyongyang's recent decision to expel the majority of the WFP personnel.

"We have not procured the 25,000 tons originally scheduled to have been shipped later this month, due to uncertainties about whether the [WFP] emergency feeding operation, to which it was to be delivered, would still be in place to receive it and monitor its distribution," the State Department said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foodaid; foreignaid; northkorea; statedept; un; wfp
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It's unfortunate that the North Korean people probably don't realize is that the reason so many of them are starving is because of their maniacal dictator.
1 posted on 12/04/2005 12:10:08 PM PST by wagglebee
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Even the Klinton administration knew that we were just feeding their soldiers, anyway.

We've been easy on Cuba and look how long Castro's stayed in power. NO MORE DEALS!


2 posted on 12/04/2005 12:13:43 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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...citing concerns that the food will not reach those who need it.

And they just figured this out? The day the aid was originally proposed (seems about a year ago now) Freepers were in near unanimous agreement about this point.

3 posted on 12/04/2005 12:15:59 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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The food was probably being used to feed their military.


4 posted on 12/04/2005 12:17:36 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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And they just figured this out?
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Very hard to tell WHO Washington works for...certainly not the U.S. citizen whose tax dollars they glady take.


5 posted on 12/04/2005 12:17:57 PM PST by EagleUSA
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Why are we feeding the armies of people who are threatening us with nuclear war? We'd be better off dropping all those AK-47s we piled up in Iraq over the N Korean countryside and letting the N koreans overthrow Kim Mentally Ill.


6 posted on 12/04/2005 12:18:22 PM PST by ozzymandus
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but..but...but the NK army will starve?~!?!?!


7 posted on 12/04/2005 12:22:34 PM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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Korean dogs will die as a result of this.


8 posted on 12/04/2005 12:24:03 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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Why are we feeding the armies of people who are threatening us with nuclear war?

All part of the new "compassionate conservatism," I suspect. .....where compassion is heaped upon everyone but the U.S. taxpayer.

But at least the gov't made the right move in this instance, late as it was.

9 posted on 12/04/2005 12:26:55 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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> And they just figured this out?

No. I'm sure Foggy Bottom has known all along.

This is just the Bush/Rice reforms finally taking hold.


10 posted on 12/04/2005 12:27:10 PM PST by Boundless
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Heh-heh...If I may steal a line from a vastly-outrageous TV show and use it against the Northern Koreans:

"NO Soup for You!"

11 posted on 12/04/2005 12:28:12 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: Rome2000

I think all of them are already dead.


12 posted on 12/04/2005 12:30:12 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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I'm glad to hear this. It's about time someone woke up. I want to help people that are really starving though I don't want to spend money on keeping their military in shape.


13 posted on 12/04/2005 12:32:22 PM PST by JOE43270 (JOE43270 America voted and said we are One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All.)
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All part of the new "compassionate conservatism," I suspect. .....where compassion is heaped upon everyone but the U.S. taxpayer.
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We have finally decoded the misleading term "compassionate conservatism"...it means LIBERALISM.


14 posted on 12/04/2005 12:42:18 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

It sure does...


15 posted on 12/04/2005 12:44:47 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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ping


17 posted on 12/04/2005 12:52:52 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: wagglebee

We need to feed our own people first.


18 posted on 12/04/2005 12:54:17 PM PST by newfrpr04
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The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which distributes foreign aid, has been ordered by the North Koreans to cut most of its staff there by the end of December, a move that will substantially reduce its ability to disburse and monitor aid shipments

If they remove the staff, remove the aid.
A page out of Mugabe plan for feeding your citizens playbook.
19 posted on 12/04/2005 1:06:25 PM PST by stylin19a
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We need to feed our own people first.

Eh? We're the fattest people in the history of the world, and our poor people are fatter than our rich people.

20 posted on 12/04/2005 2:04:11 PM PST by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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