Posted on 06/27/2011 11:32:26 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea food aid program acutely short of funds
UN aid agencies have appealed for more international funding for food aid to North Korea, saying donors have provided less than a fifth of the amount needed this year.
The World Food Program and other UN bodies met in New York on Monday with officials from North Korea's donors, including Japan, South Korea and the United States.
The meeting was closed to the media. But sources say UN officials explained that they need 218-million dollars to deliver food to the North this year, but that international contributions so far have reached only about 17 percent of the amount.
Many of North Korea's donor countries are concerned that food supplies provided to the North are being diverted by its military, instead of reaching those in need.
Katharina Zellweger, who heads the Pyongyang office of the Swiss development agency, told reporters that some people in Pyongyang are wearing brighter-colored clothing than before and are using mobile phones.
But she said the country's overall food situation is bad, and that her office is constantly urging North Korean authorities to enhance transparency in their distribution of food aid.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:46 +0900 (JST)
I say if you have the money for nukes and meth buy your own damned hot dog.
P!
. . plus you have to help your own dam self, tough love baby, look what happened when we gave aid to africa, they all had a million babies all asking for more free hot dogs.
“Many of North Korea’s donor countries are concerned that food supplies provided to the North are being diverted by its military, instead of reaching those in need”
Really?
hogwash
China is buying euro debt, and its own step-child has no food? who does the UN think they’re fooling? rfi track the food and see where it really goes.
Let China feed them.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. (Yes, that includes UNaccountable bureaucracies.)
OHHH CHIA PET IS ROANEY
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