U.S. Alleges North Korea Is Misusing Aid for Poor
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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North Korea has missed a year-end deadline to provide a full account of its nuclear weapons program under a disarmament-for-aid deal , a U.S. official said on Monday.
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North Korea urged its impoverished people Saturday to rally around Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il, after Washington rebuffed the communist North's demand that the two sides hold bilateral talks to curb nuclear tension.
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South Korea has evidence that rice aid intended for the hungry in destitute North Korea has been diverted to the communist state's powerful military, a South Korean defense ministry official said on Thursday.
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The World Food Programme has launched an urgent appeal for funds to feed North Korea, saying more than one third of its children are badly malnourished.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 23 -- In the months after President Bush's 2002 speech branding Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil," North Korean officials channeled at least $2.7 million through a bank account normally used to process United Nations development projects because of fears that the...
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Changes in North Korea's economy have led to spiralling food prices many people cannot afford, the UN says.
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The U.N. Development Program,  under fire from the United States, named a Hungarian, an Indian  and an American on Tuesday to an outside board to investigate  its practices in North Korea and the case of one  whistle-blower.
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The United States should reexamine a  questionable charge that North Korea has a covert uranium  enrichment program, a key American complaint against Pyongyang  that could complicate the new nuclear weapons deal, experts  said on Wednesday.
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South Korea said on Thursday that it would send a small amount of food to the impoverished North as part of an international aid effort but any large shipments would remain dependent on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea on Tuesday accused the administration of US President George W. Bush of using a dispute over its nuclear weapons program to gain votes in next week&#39;s presidential election.
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A UN aid agency operating in North Korea left itself open to exploitation, a US Senate probe concludes.
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By TED BRIDIS WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. The U.S.
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The White House said Tuesday that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is engaging in "more bluster" by criticizing President Bush as a leader who is fomenting world unrest.
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The United States on Friday disputed North Korean claims that Pyongyang had handed over a list of its nuclear programs ahead of a year-end disarmament deadline. Despite the North's charges of U.S. obstruction, the State Department expressed confidence that the process was moving ahead.
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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state&#39;s nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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North Korea has been selling on its  domestic market international food aid aimed at helping to ease  food shortages in the impoverished country, South Korea's  Unification Ministry said on Friday.