Posted on 01/20/2008 12:54:54 AM PST by bruinbirdman
North Korea has become more and more receptive to help from United Nations agencies, mostly due to the country's dire need of food and other aid, a special rapporteur from the U.N. said Friday.
Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights currently visiting Tokyo, assessed Pyongyang's reception of help from U.N. agencies since the devastating floods last August as a "constructive development." The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that the North's crop yields decreased 7 percent in 2007 from a year earlier to some 3.8 million tons.
The official, however, also noted that problems such as the mismanagement of food and distorted budget allocations benefited the military and elites.
"Overall, there is still a very serious and systematic set of violations of human rights," the special rapporteur said in a press conference.
Muntarbhorn also held talks with Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura during his third visit to Japan.
The U.N. official is scheduled to depart for South Korea on Saturday to collect information and data for his annual report on the matter. He plans to hold a press conference next Thursday at the Press Center in Seoul.
N. Korea more and more open to U.N. aid
Really means: more open to U.S. Welfare
What it really means is the US and UN will feed the NK Army.
> N. Korea more and more open to U.N. aid
Translation: They want a handout, like all the other leech nations who want our cash, and will still trash us in every utterance of their breath.
Just as well reads:
"Starving people benefit UN image, staff levels, and access to (US) donations."
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