North Korea famine
North Korea, WFP agree to scaled back aid plan
(Adds U.S. comment, paragraphs 10-11) By Lindsay Beck BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to accept aid from the World Food Programme months after it said it no longer wanted ...
North Korea reverses course, to accept food aid-WFP
BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to accept international food aid that will feed 1.9 million in the impoverished country, nearly a year after it said it no longer wanted handouts, ...
N.Korea rationing raises starvation risk: group
By Jack Kim SEOUL, May 4 (Reuters) - North Korea's return to food rationing puts its most vulnerable people at risk of starvation because the system is designed to reward the loyal and leave the ...
North Korea requests more farm aid from South
Source: Reuters
SEOUL, April 10 (Reuters) - North Korea, which has shunned help from international aid agencies despite battling chronic food shortages, has requested 300,000 tonnes of fertiliser from South Korea for ... Full article
Source: Reuters
SEOUL, April 10 (Reuters) - North Korea, which has shunned help from international aid agencies despite battling chronic food shortages, has requested 300,000 tonnes of fertiliser from South Korea for ... Full article
N.Korean defector says disabled newborns are killed
Source: Reuters
By Jack Kim SEOUL, March 22 (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist ... Full article
Source: Reuters
By Jack Kim SEOUL, March 22 (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist ... Full article



