North Korea Food Aid

Food For Nukes? North Korea May Be Willing To Strike A Deal

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM and FOSTER KLUG | Posted 03.12.2012

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea signaled Wednesday it remains open to suspending uranium enrichment in exchange for U.S. food aid, a deal that ...

Major Nuclear Talks Could Be Helped By Food Aid

AP | By JEAN H. LEE | Posted 12.19.2011

-- The United States was poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week before the nation announced the death of supr...

European Union Sending $14.5 Million In Food Aid To North Korea

AP | By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER | Posted 09.03.2011

BRUSSELS -- The European Union said Monday it will restart food aid to North Korea after the country's repressive communist regime agreed to an unprec...

U.S. Team Visits North Korea As Reclusive Leader Leaves Town

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 07.24.2011

BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao that would m...

6 Million North Koreans Need Urgent Food Aid, UN Reports

AP | MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The United Nations reported Thursday that more than 6 million North Koreans, about a quarter of the communist state's population &n...

U.N.: North Korea Faces 'Alarming' Drought, Declining Food Aid

AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 05.25.2011

UNITED NATIONS — A predicted rainfall shortage in some parts of North Korea, combined with reduced food aid this year, will have an "alarming" e...

North Korea Restricts Domestic Markets, Food Aid While Saber-Rattling Abroad

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....

North Korea Turns Down US Food Aid, Kicks Out American Aid Groups

guardian.co.uk | Tania Branigan in Beijing | Posted 05.25.2011

North Korea has rejected an offer of further food aid from the US despite its chronic food shortages, the US state department said today....

US Sends Tons Of Food Aid To North Korea

AP | BURT HERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of tons of food from the U.S. has started flowing into North Korea, the U.N. food agency said Monday, as aid grou...