US resumes North Korea food aid
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The US has announced a resumption for the first time in three years of food aid to North Korea, which is believed to be facing famine this year.
The US government's development arm, USAID, said over the next year it will provide half a million tonnes of food.
The move comes days after Pyongyang handed US negotiators documents detailing its past nuclear activities. The US said it was satisfied the aid would reach those in need, rather than be siphoned off to North Korean elites.
Aid agencies have warned North Korea is threatened this summer by famine - a decade after up to one million of its people died of starvation.
The Americans gave food aid to North Korea from 1995 to 2005, when it was suspended after Pyongyang expelled representatives of the World Food Programme.
The US government's development arm, USAID, said over the next year it will provide half a million tonnes of food.
The move comes days after Pyongyang handed US negotiators documents detailing its past nuclear activities. The US said it was satisfied the aid would reach those in need, rather than be siphoned off to North Korean elites.
Aid agencies have warned North Korea is threatened this summer by famine - a decade after up to one million of its people died of starvation.
The Americans gave food aid to North Korea from 1995 to 2005, when it was suspended after Pyongyang expelled representatives of the World Food Programme.
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