China is the world’s largest seafood consumer, and its fleet often fishes waters claimed by South Korea. When South Korean authorities try to enforce international regulations, they often meet fierce resistance. Seung Hyuk Park filed this report with information provided by Hyungjin Kim in Seoul.
Transshipments through Russian ports may violate international sanctions, could open Seoul to sanctions, and undercuts US's 'maximum pressure' campaign
Mark Lowcock estimates more than 10 million North Koreans are undernourished, while stressing that humanitarian aid is allowed despite international sanctions on Pyongyang
South Korea seems willing to downplay the North’s human rights violations to resolve the nuclear standoff, while the U.S. used the issue to pressure Pyongyang
Those who fled the North worry the “army of beauties” cheering squad will give a false impression of the poverty stricken and repressive country
Seoul is working to prevent the spread of the virus from the North while also containing its own outbreak
But some experts see the first assistance to Pyongyang since late 2015 as having the potential to undermine efforts to isolate the Kim regime as punishment for nuclear ambitions
Foreign-funded education institutions scaling back as more and more governments issue travel warnings on North Korea, limiting teacher pool
South Korea is talking about Lim Ji-hyun, who fled from North Korea in 2014 but who now appears to have returned there; she disappeared three months ago on a trip to China and may have been kidnapped
Sanctions intended to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program hobbling humanitarian and relief efforts
Agency calls for $18M to help 6.9 million people; plan includes treatment for about 25,000 children under age 5 affected by severe acute malnutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization official tells VOA $150,000 will help Pyongyang restore landscape's productivity, potential
World Food Program has been cutting food aid to North Korea since August because of a lack of funds
World Health Organization says about 5,000 North Koreans died of tuberculosis in 2014
Food agency says communist nation is facing food shortages next year, and the agency needs additional $23.3 million to fund the extension
Globally, number of deaths caused by tuberculosis has dropped by half since 1990
UN agency also estimates that there are twice as many undernourished children in the communist country’s rural areas as in its cities
UN agencies, aid groups appeal for help for Pyongyang, but donations have dropped as tensions over its nuclear development have heightened
September's amount was down 44 percent from previous month; reduction comes as Pyongyang is reducing food rations
Recent figures estimating food rations per person is less than half the minimum amount recommended by United Nations officials
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