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President Donald Trump called an emergency meeting on the Fourth of July to formulate a 'measured response' to North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test, amid fears it could reach as far as Alaska. North Korea declared Tuesday that it had finally achieved its dream of building an intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it would 'fundamentally put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail'. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later confirmed the latest missile test was with an intercontinental ballistic missile.

With a little effort, I collected the following information from various U.N. web sites. Please feel free to forward or use this information as you please: In 1996, five years after the end of Desert Storm, the U.N. authorized the "Oil for Food" program to permit Iraq to sell oil in exchange for hard currency. The total revenues from these oil sales were to be used as follows: 66.7% to purchase food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid (This was later raised to 72%.) 25% to the Compensation Fund for war reparations 2.2% to pay U.N. administrative costs 0.8% to support...