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Submitted by ctv_en_3 on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 08:25
The UN World Food Programme says it has reached an agreement to greatly expand its work in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as a shipment of US food aid arrived in the country.

The deal means that the agency will be able to feed five million people in the hunger-hit state, WFP said. It comes amid warnings the DPRK could be facing famine.


Fifty more international monitors will oversee aid distribution and they will be given unprecedented access to rural areas, it said.


It has been reliant on international food aid for years and problems were compounded when serious floods last year devastated swathes of cropland.


The US announced in May that it would send half a million tonnes of aid to the DPRK to be distributed by WFP.


An estimated one million people starved to death in the DPRK in the late 1990s.

VOVNews/BBC

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