Pyongyang agreed to allow the humanitarian groups to include Korean speakers. The US insisted on that condition to help ensure that the badly-needed corn and wheat was not siphoned off for the North Korean military. In recent months, however, after North Korea refused to allow sufficient numbers of Korean speakers to join the WFP team, Washington halted food supplies. |
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