ADB says no consensus among nations to admit North Korea


JEJU, South Korea (AP) - North Korea wants to join the Asian Development Bank to seek economic aid for its impoverished people, but the bank's member nations are split on whether to admit the isolated communist nation, the ADB's president said Monday. 

North Korea has repeatedly appealed for entry to the Manila-based ADB, which is run by 63 nations, mostly from Asia. 

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