Reply #14: WFP cuts food aid for N.Korea, says worse ahead

[ckramer]

The World Food Programme is slashing food rations for North Korea's hungry children, women and the elderly and said on Saturday that the problem would worsen if it is unable to raise new cash and food pledges.

The WFP has been active in the isolated North Korea since 1995, when it was invited to help ease widespread famine after natural disasters and bad harvests. Aid experts say more than 1 million people have died.

"We've already had to make some cutbacks. We stopped giving vegetable oil to 900,000 elderly people already," Anthony Banbury, the WFP's Asia regional director, told a news conference in Beijing after a five-day trip to North Korea -- his third.

"As of next week, we have to stop providing vegetable oil ration to kindergarten children, nurseries and pregnant and nursing women," said Banbury, who made a stopover in Beijing on his way to Bangkok where he is based.


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The question is why all of the sudden they stop giving out food to NK?