Reports

DATE=9/16/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-219947 TITLE=AFGHAN U-N (S) BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ISSUED A CALL FOR HELP TO THE WARRING FACTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN IN AN INCREASINGLY DESPERATE EFFORT TO EVACUATE AID WORKERS FROM THE OPPOSITION STRONGHOLD OF MAZAR-I-SHARIF. AS…

A Christian relief group says more than a million people may already have been killed by a famine in North Korea. The vice president of World Vision, Andrew Natsios, says North Koreans are …

FAO and the World Food Programme expressed "very serious alarm" September 12 over food shortages in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where drought and a destructive typhoon will again seriously reduce food production this year.…

This survey of about 400 current and former residents of North Korea, as well as Chinese and Russian visitors to North Korea, was conducted throughout the month of July, 1997. It is not a formal poll, such as those conducted…

AA38 I am pleased to announce that Australia is to contribute a $500 000 initial assistance package to combat the worsening drought in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Over the last four months severe frosts and drought associated with the increasing El…

North Korea - ASKP61 Geneva, September 15, 1997 Dear Friends, Further to information on shipments provided in Dateline ACT No.4, we are pleased to inform you that 8.5 MT of medicines at a value of DM 200,000 has since been airfreighted…

REG. NO. 97/0343 Situation Report from the DHA Coordinator in the Democratic Peoples Republic of KOREA (DPRK) Period covered: 15 August - 15 September 1997 HIGHLIGHTS The UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific visited the country…

NEW YORK -- A survey of people along the China-North Korea border suggests that, since January, an average of about 15 percent of the people in numerous towns and villages have died from the famine which has plagued North Korea…

DATE=9/14/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-219849 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING UPDATE (S) BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: FACTIONAL FIGHTING BETWEEN FORCES OF THE ANTI-TALEBAN ALLIANCE HAS REPORTEDLY DIED DOWN IN THE NORTHERN AFGHAN CITY OF MAZAR-I-SHARIF. AS V-O-A CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS -- THE TALEBAN SAY THEY…

DATE=9/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-219762 TITLE=NORTH KOREA / FOOD (L/S) BYLINE=PEGGY POLK DATELINE=ROME CONTENT= VOICED AT: ///// EDS: EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 0930 UTC TODAY -- 5:30 AM EDT. ///// ///// USE OPTS FOR LONG. ///// INTRO: THE U-N FOOD AGENCIES WARNED FRIDAY NORTH KOREA FACES CONTINUED, SERIOUS…