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U.S. Alleges North Korea Is Misusing Aid for Poor Probe Says U.N. Money Was Spent on Property Overseas By Glenn Kessler and Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 9, 2007; Page A11 About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business records. Millions more, the department reported, went to a North Korean institution linked to a bank alleged to handle arms deals. The...