U.N. to Resume Food Aid on Smaller Scale
The World Food Program has reached agreement with North Korea to resume food aid, but the effort will be smaller than it was before its suspension in December, the U.N. agency said.
The new program will feed 1.9 million of the “most needy” people, Anthony Banbury, the agency’s Asia regional director, said at a news conference in Beijing. That is down from 6.5 million.
He said the agency would supply food aid only in areas where it could monitor distribution to assure foreign donors that the aid was reaching its intended beneficiaries.
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