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WFP says funding shortfall for NKorea food aid

BEIJING (AP) — The U.N.’s food agency cannot feed millions of hungry women and children in impoverished North Korea because international donations have dried up and the communist regime has restricted its operations, an official said Wednesday.

The World Food Program has received only 15 percent of the $504 million it needs to feed 6.2 million vulnerable North Koreans as the food situation worsens during a lean growing season before the November harvest, according to Torben Due, the WFP’s representative for North Korea.

Due would not give a reason for the funding shortfall but said he understood that donors may be responding to the political situation in North Korea.

The WFP has received no contributions after North Korea carried out a nuclear test in May, he said. That test drew international condemnation and garnered U.N. sanctions.