Footage released by the UN food agency of emaciated children in orphanages and hospitals made a stark contrast to the orchestrated celebrations led by Kim Jong Il and his son to mark the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the communist state.
The Rome-based agency warned that a third of all children in North Korea now face acute malnutrition and said the number of severely malnourished children being hospitalised is rising rapidly after torrential rain and flooding destroyed crops and homes.
It said it has so far been able to reach far fewer than half the 3.5m million North Koreans it hoped to feed, and had concerns that the emergency operation is only 30 per cent funded. More...
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The Rome-based agency warned that a third of all children in North Korea now face acute malnutrition and said the number of severely malnourished children being hospitalised is rising rapidly after torrential rain and flooding destroyed crops and homes.
It said it has so far been able to reach far fewer than half the 3.5m million North Koreans it hoped to feed, and had concerns that the emergency operation is only 30 per cent funded. More...
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