North Korea Refuses Food Aid Shipments Smaller than 300 Tons
2019-06-05
In a file photo, workers load sacks of South Korean rice bound for North Korea into a Vietnamese ship in Gunsan, South Korea.
North Korea is refusing food aid in small lots, despite repeatedly asking the international community for assistance as food shortages continue in the isolated state, sources in the country told RFA’s Korean Service.
The discrepancy is related to the size of aid packages. Pyongyang does not want to bother with donations on a smaller scale, but is more than willing to accept large-scale aid from prominent international organizations.
An RFA report from last month said that Pyongyang even exaggerates the severity of food shortages in hopes of landing a bigger aid-package than it actually needs from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP).
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/nk-rejects-food-aid-06052019152335.html
I read it's bad there but it's not like a famine will hit them. Pitiful all the same.
