US may suspend food aid to DPRK (1 Viewer)

[Comrade nathan]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States may suspend shipments of food aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) if the United Nations stops or reduces its distribution efforts in the country, a senior US official said on Wednesday.

The United States has delivered about half of its 50,000 metricton food pledge to the DPRK through the UN World Food Program (WFP)'s distribution system, and was set to begin delivery of the rest later this month, according to a statement by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which oversees US humanitarian aid abroad.

Andrew Natsios, administrator for the USAID, said Washington was concerned about the humanitarian situation in the DPRK. The USAID would suspend procurement and delivery of the rest of its food aid commitment for this year if the WFP were forced to end food distribution.

Pyongyang said in September that its food situation had improved and wanted emergency food aid shifted to development assistance, leaving the WFP and other aid agencies in the DPRK scrambling to negotiate terms to stay on.

The WFP began working in the DPRK in the mid-1990s.

Natsios said in a statement that about half of a June commitment by the United States for 50,000 tons of food to be distributed up to the end of 2005 had been delivered or was being delivered through a WFP emergency feeding operation. But the balance was scheduled to be procured later this month.

"If the WFP operation is no longer in place, with its full complement of international staff, there will be no way to even minimally assure that this food gets to its intended recipients," Natsios said.

His statement was issued on the same day when the six-party talks, involving the United States, the DPRK, the Republic of Korea, China, Japan and Russia, began a fresh round of talks in Beijing on the nuclear issue in Koran peninsula. Enditem

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/10/content_3759204.htm

 

[leetom]

About time too. Hopefully widespread food shortage will inspire the peasants into uprising and finally put an end to that corrupt regime.

 

[supercharged]

A change of government won't stop people dying from famine. What they need is more agricultural technology and fertiliser to boost crop yields.

 

[Sonic]

the US startegy of kill off the economy and then try and destroy the country by force is evident in this article....

 

[Capitalist Pig]

the US startegy of kill off the economy and then try and destroy the country by force is evident in this article....

And your strategy of lower the intelligence of the rest of the forum and then argue with them on your level is evident from your post.

OMGBUSHEVILNORTHKOREAGOODBUTOPPRESSEDBYIMPERIALISTSCUM!

 

[katie_tully]

Ah! Side note....

This is how I see foreign aid being administered. Enough of this bullshit handing them millions/billions of dollars. If their people are that poor and starving, lets ship them food stuffs, that way the money cannot be mismanaged by their corrupt governments.

the US startegy of kill off the economy and then try and destroy the country by force is evident in this article....

Deary me, how do you people come up with these wild conspiracy theories...

 

[Sonic]

"Deary me, how do you people come up with these wild conspiracy theories..."

it's not really a conspiracy theory it's evident throughout history
i dont see why ppl blindly turn the eye and say 'uhhh america just wants to rid the world of corruption'... it's just not gonna work and that's not the awy theworld works..

 

[Capitalist Pig]

"Deary me, how do you people come up with these wild conspiracy theories..."

it's not really a conspiracy theory it's evident throughout history
i dont see why ppl blindly turn the eye and say 'uhhh america just wants to rid the world of corruption'... it's just not gonna work and that's not the awy theworld works..

America does act in their own interests, but it is not in their interests to destroy North Korea by force because that'd piss China off.

 

[supercharged]

It would also piss South Korea off if America were to unilaterally invade North Korea.

But America doesn't currently have the ability to invade and occupy North Korea, so they won't be losing any sleep over that.

 

[zeek]

lol america

 

[Comrade nathan]

Ah! Side note....

This is how I see foreign aid being administered. Enough of this bullshit handing them millions/billions of dollars. If their people are that poor and starving, lets ship them food stuffs, that way the money cannot be mismanaged by their corrupt governments.



Deary me, how do you people come up with these wild conspiracy theories...

I always thought that they go food aid not money.

The most important aid DPRK can get is advanced industrial eqiupment for farming.

 

[Aznpsycho]

lol america

This, my friend, is the epitome of everything wrong with discussing politics in a forum for teenagers.

On topic, I have no idea how we can solve this thing. The North Korean government is notoriously corrupt, considering their inability to feed their own country despite significant food aid. Question: is it true that they actually SELL their food overseas to raise funds for various weapons programs?

 

[Capitalist Pig]

I always thought that they go food aid not money.

The most important aid DPRK can get is advanced industrial eqiupment for farming.

Maybe if they didn't have a shit communist economy they'd be able to afford it.

 

[Collin]

Ahaha, I think it's just funny that North Korea keeps trapping the U.S over this whole issue. Not saying the U.S is the bad guy here, oh not at all. Infact if anything they play by the rules, but the DPRK obviously keeps employing delaying tactics against any effort to kill off their nuclear arsenal in a most aggravating fashion. I mean, since 94' the U.S has had a healthy aid agreement going on with the DPRK, where of course they get assistance in exchange for the freezing of it's nuclear ambitions. Then, being cocky turds they start up their nuclear programs again.. and when the U.S intervenes (and rightly so under the agreement), they claim that they won't stop until the U.S starts giving aid and supplies again! Ridiculous! However, it's been obviously quite effective as they've been playing this game since 2002 now and the U.S hasn't gotten too far. They certainly managed to delay the U.S long enough in 2002/03 to irrefutably complete one or several nuclear warheads, and of course the success of managing to hold off any disarmament action from the U.S whilst Kimmy finalised his first nuclear warhead had then just made Bush's job a whole lot harder.

And with his preoccupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, China's growing political, military & economic influences (along with the entire Taiwan issue) as well as domestic issues, I'm sure this is just a nice buffer for good ol' Kimmy to keep up such an annoying strategy.