People watch a television screen showing a news report about North Korea's decision not to participate in the Tokyo Olympics due to the Covid-19 pandemic, at a railway station in Seoul on April 6, 2021. North Korea on Tuesday slammed a recent United Nations report on child malnutrition in the country as a "sheer lie," saying it will need to review whether humanitarian assistance can "truly help us". - AFP
SEOUL, April 6 (Bernama): North Korea on Tuesday slammed a recent United Nations report on child malnutrition in the country as a "sheer lie," saying it will need to review whether humanitarian assistance can "truly help us", Yonhap news agency’s report said.
It said the director of the Research Institute for Nutrition Care of Children from the North's health ministry made the statement in response to the panel of experts’ report that close to 100,000 children in the North are suffering from malnutrition due to border restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic.
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