BEIJING: A survey released yesterday shows foreign food aid is helping to reduce malnutrition among children in famine-hit North Korea, UN agencies said, in a rebuttal of US charges the North uses aid to feed its army.
The North Korean government study, conducted with Unicef and the World Food Programme (WFP), comes as a crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions builds and food shipments dwindle from key donors like the United States, which is demanding guarantees that its aid not be abused.