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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...

North Korea: And still they starve By Aidan Foster-Carter What's news? In my country, apparently, it's the rutting of three unmarried people who work - or did - for England's Football Association. (FA for short, perhaps appropriately.) Not that such trivia wholly blots out the real world. As ever, crises come and go. Darfur in Sudan is currently the new flavor of the month, and rightly so. But our attention spans are short, and the media circus will soon move on to horrors new. Darfur may still fester, but it will be off our television screens. As TS Eliot said,...