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Famine threat for millions in North Korea: UNJuly 31st, 2008 - 11:27 am ICT by IANS DPA New York, July 31 (DPA) More than six million North Koreans have been impacted by successive poor harvests and soaring food prices, which may presage another famine, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. An estimated 1.2 million of North Korea’s 24-million population have been receiving food assistance from WFP. Nearly 6.4 million people are experiencing the threat of famine for the first time in a decade, a UN survey revealed. “Millions of vulnerable North Koreans are at risk of slipping towards precarious hunger levels,” Jean-Pierre de Margerie, the WFP representative in North Korea, said Wednesday. “The last time hunger was so deep and so widespread in parts of the country was in the late 1990s,” de Margerie said at a press conference in Beijing. The joint survey by WFP and the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation said food production in North Korea dropped sharply because of flooding in August 2007, subsequent poor harvests and the current high food prices in many developing countries. The survey was conducted in eight North Korean provinces, the most comprehensive since 2004. It said close to three-quarters of households in those provinces have cut down food intake. DPA Tags: 1990s, agriculture organisation, beijing, developing countries, dpa, famine threat, food assistance, food intake, food prices, food production, households, hunger, jean pierre, north korea, north koreans, poor harvests, three quarters, un world food programme, wfp representative, world food programme
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GOTOVO četiri milijuna Sjevernokoreanaca ostat će do veljače bez porcija hrane, koju im dijeli UN, ako strani donatori ne osiguraju veću pomoć toj komunističkoj državi, objavio je u subotu u Pekingu šef UN-ovog svjetskog programa za hranu (WFP). Ova izjava direktora WFP-a Jamesa Morrisa uslijedila je nakon što je on prošli tjedan hitno zatražio 171 milijuna dolara za hranu kako bi se nahranilo 6,5 milijuna Sjevernokoreanaca, većinom djece i žena suočenih već godinama s glađu. Prema WFP-u, potreban je 171 milijun dolara kako bi se prekinuo pad u isporuci hrane što je već ove godine prisililo tu UN-ovu agenciju na smanjenje porcija hrane milijunima Koreanaca koji žive od njezine pomoći od sredine 90-ih godina. "Snašli smo se za 60 posto za ovu godinu. A to znači da ćemo u siječnju morati prestati hraniti oko tri milijuna ljudi", rekao je Morris na konferenciji koju je održao u Pekingu. Kako je kazao, pomoć Rusije omogućit će da se isporuka hrane zadrži još oko mjesec dana, ali "bez dodatne pomoći će broj Sjevernokoreanaca pogođenih nestašicom hrane porasti na oko 3,8 milijuna". Prema njegovim riječima, pomoć SAD-a u hrani, koja je iznosila prosječno 155.000 tona godišnje, pala je na 40.000 tone 2003. godine. (Hina) bis br