SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has urged his country to boost food production at factories and farms, following a World Food Program warning that 4 million North Koreans are at risk of malnutrition because of a fall in international aid.
The leader's appeal, carried as front-page news Monday in the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, came just weeks after the U.S. State Department announced it would send 60,000 metric tons of food to the communist North to help avert hunger and starvation.
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