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U.S. extends small olive branch to North Korea to streamline humanitarian aid
CBS News ^ | August 6, 2018 | Pamela Falk

Posted on 08/08/2018 12:59:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The committee that monitors sanctions on North Korea for the UN Security Council approved new U.S.-backed guidelines Monday to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of hungry and impoverished civilians. The guidelines were crafted by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley and experts with the U.S. mission to the UN as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea remain high.

Despite the new guidance on humanitarian aid, "the United States has been very clear that we will continue to enforce the current sanctions until we achieve the final, fully verified, denuclearization of North Korea," a U.S. official told CBS News on Monday.

The official said that the new procedures are "solely intended" to establish a clear and uniform process to "review legitimate humanitarian exemption requests and guard against any activities that would undermine existing Security Council resolutions."

The new procedures are intended to allow international and non-governmental organizations to carry out relief activities in North Korea "for the benefit of the civilian populations." Aid organizations have pressed for the changes, arguing that the sanctions were never intended to stymie aid for civilians in North Korea.

The guidelines will likely expedite the delivery of medical equipment, drugs and much-needed food aid. North Korea has been awaiting the delivery of replacement parts for equipment to test for tuberculosis, as well as food for undernourished infants and toddlers.

In a report in April, UNICEF said 40 percent of the North Korean population are in need of humanitarian aid: "Under-nutrition continues to be a serious concern with more than one-quarter of children stunted due to a lack of adequate food."

The Security Council has imposed severe sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, which remain in place following the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: children; food; haley; hunger; korea; pray4northkorea; starvation; trump; unitednations
Does Pamela want to see a million dead children in Los Angeles or Pittsburg?
1 posted on 08/08/2018 12:59:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I pray that by God’s grace, the North Korean people will know that America was never the enemy. And that they will only have high regard for this country and its generosity.


2 posted on 08/08/2018 1:06:31 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I can see the headlines the day Trump cures cancer: Through dumb luck, Trump slightly improves medical care. Still no help for blacks with sickle cell anemia.


3 posted on 08/08/2018 1:21:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only way the gooks are gonna give up their nukes is breaking them off their charcoaled hands. I wish there was another way.


4 posted on 08/08/2018 2:01:46 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The bigger problem with aid to the norks has always been that they want us to just give the aid to the government so they can distribute it themselves. North Korea has a cast system based on the government’s assessment of each family’s loyalty to it. This system determines where they can live, what kind of work they can do, and how much food they get when food is scarce.


5 posted on 08/08/2018 2:16:49 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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Same as African aid decades ago.. the aid goes to empower the evil, oppressive regime. So why are we doing it?
Same ol norks...saber rattle, get paid. They just used a different saber this time.


6 posted on 08/08/2018 2:28:59 AM PDT by momincombatboots (How many vetoed spending dollars with chuck n Nancy without wall funding?)
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Not an olive branch but a “small olive branch”

Jesus walked on the water, the next day press reported that - Yesterday the alleged messiah revealed that he cannot swim.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 2:29:24 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So their nuclear programs are ongoing? Trump would have no problem posting that on twitter.


8 posted on 08/08/2018 2:32:27 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who is ‘Pamela


9 posted on 08/08/2018 3:28:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: wastedyears

So their nuclear programs are ongoing? Trump would have no problem posting that on twitter.

The President has already tweeted on this issue. “There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.”


10 posted on 08/08/2018 4:15:30 AM PDT by oincobx
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