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N.Korea Rejected Further UN Food AidNorth Korea reportedly turned up its nose at any more food aid from the UN and asked the World Food Program early last month to shut its Pyongyang office. A South Korean official said the North last year also vowed to turn down any further humanitarian aid from international bodies, and Seoul was trying to work out what exactly Pyongyang wants. There are said to be two reasons. One is that Seoul promised the North substantial food aid that allowed Pyongyang to cover its shortfall to some extent. It was initially estimated to be short...

Pastor aims to send rabbits to feed North Koreans 29 Jun 2005 06:52:31 GMT Source: Reuters SEOUL, June 29 (Reuters) - A South Korean pastor is aiming to cut into North Korea's severe food shortage by sending the reclusive state 1.2 million rabbits to eat. Cho Soon-tae from the Evangelical Movement for National Unification said rabbits are tasty, resilient and reproduce, well, like rabbits, which would make them an ideal food source for North Korea. With the help of seven pastors from leading South Korean churches, Cho secured more than $1 million to buy rabbits at a little under $1...

N. Korea: Food Aid Sold at the Market (smuggled-out video: 2min 10sec, taken at 11am, 04/26/05) The following video was taken at 11am on April 26, 2005, at Nam-heung Market in Anju, S. Pyongan Province, N. Korea, which is 70km(about 44 miles) to the north of Pyongyang. It was taken by Kim Man-chul(alias,) an undercover member of RENK, which is a N. Korean human right organization operating out of Japan. He is one of the most wanted men by N. Korean security, because he had previously taken videos of aid materials being diverted by N. Korean authorities. This was...

Vice-president Dick Cheney stepped up America's war of words with North Korea yesterday by calling it a police state run by an irresponsible leader indifferent to the fate of his malnourished people.His words came just 48 hours after the Pentagon announced that it was sending 15 F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter-bombers to South Korea, a US ally, for an undetermined period. The aircraft crews, trained to seek out targets with precision weapons, needed to familiarise themselves with the Korean terrain, the air force said. Speaking to CNN in an interview broadcast last night, Mr Cheney described North Korea's leader, Kim Jong...

U.N. May Suspend Food Aid to N. Korea The U.N. said Wednesday international donations to North Korea are dwindling because the Stalinist country restricts monitoring of food aid. The World Food Program (WFP) warned it may have to suspend food distribution to millions of North Koreans within a couple of weeks. WFP Asia director Tony Banbury, who recently returned to China after a visit to North Korea, wrote on the U.N. website Wednesday, "Already obliged to stop providing enriched vegetable oil to more than 900,000 elderly people, funding shortfalls will force WFP next week to suspend distribution of vegetable oil...

North Korea says it does not need food aid Pyongyang, North Korea, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- North Korean officials say their nation does not need humanitarian aid from the United Nations next year or later, the Kyodo news agency reported Saturday. Pyongyang's message was conveyed by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Friday, with no explanation as to why it no longer needs the U.N. aid. U.N. aid officials said they are baffled by North Korea's latest move since they believe that nation is suffering from an acute food shortage.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Southern Baptist ministry projects in Iraq will resume Oct. 7 after a five-week delay caused by concerns for the safety of humanitarian workers in the country. Small-scale delivery of food boxes packed by Southern Baptist churches has been going on, however, and a Southern Baptist worker in the region reports God is using the effort in remarkable ways to help Iraqis understand how much He loves them. The arrival of Southern Baptist volunteer teams was delayed after information was received that a remnant of Saddam Hussein loyalists in the country were intentionally targeting humanitarian workers for attacks. The...

France's resolute anti-Iraq war stance commands huge popularity at home but as the United States and Australia gear up their food aid shipments, French grain exporters fear being left out in the cold - at least at first. "The Americans and the Australians are jostling with each other for market share in Iraq...I can't imagine we'll be doing anything soon," one French trader said. "If we take part, it won't be straight away. For the moment, it's not part of our market thinking," another added. Two days into the Iraq conflict and with the United Nations' oil-for-food programme suspended, the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A group of American Christian leaders and experts visiting Iraq said Thursday there was still a chance of averting war but expressed concern about food shortages among Iraqis. "In the United States, we see often pictures of the leadership of Iraq and the government of Iraq in very negative terms. We rarely see the picture that we saw of children and women and those that will be most severely impacted if (a) war began," Bob Edgar, secretary-general of the National Council of Churches (U.S.A), told a news conference in Baghdad. "The food rations, for example, do...

GENEVA (AP) - Film star Angelina Jolie has donated $100,000 to provide food for Western Sahara refugees. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N High Commissioner for Refugees, gave the money Friday to UNHCR and the World Food Program to help support some 155,000 refugees living in camps in southeastern Algeria. "I was distressed when this desperate situation was brought to my attention. I hope to encourage other people to make themselves aware of this crisis facing the Western Saharan refugees and do what they can to help," Jolie said in a statement. WFP said last month it would be...