Pyongyang, North Korea
The World Food Program was forced to cut shipments of food to famine-stricken North Korea this week when the chronically underfunded agency ran out of money for the region. About 3 million people, mostly children and the elderly, have lost their food rations, and another 1.5 million could be cut off in a few months. Under the repressive rule of dictator Kim Jong Il, North Korea has been slowly starving since the mid-1990s, and thousands of people have fled across the border to China. WFP official Rick Corsino warned that the new cutback would bring “acute suffering on a massive scale.”
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