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DATE=3/18/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211683 TITLE=NORTH KOREAN HUNGER (L ONLY) BYLINE=GIL BUTLER DATELINE=BEIJING CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE HEAD OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SAYS NORTH KOREA'S CHILDREN ARE THREATENED WITH STARVATION AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FROM THE UNITED NATIONS IS TO BE DOUBLED IN AN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT…

(7:30am AEDT) A severe tropical cyclone is centred off the southeast tip of Papua New Guinea. The category three rated cyclone, codenamed Justin, is centred just 140-kilometres from Rossel Island and more than one-thousand-kilometres off the north Queensland coast. Australia's Tropical Cyclone…

TOKYO, March 17 (Reuter) - The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) wants the international community to quickly give food aid to North Korea to help it stave off famine, the communist country's official media reported on Monday. ''It…

AFGHANISTAN Population: 18.9 Million Urban Population: 20% Major Ethnic and Linguistic Groups: Pushtun (38%), Tajik (25%), Uzbek (6%), and Hazara (19%) Languages: Dari Persian, Pushtu and Uzbek Religions: Sunni Islam (84%) and Shi'a Islam (15%) Population Annual Growth Rate: 1.2% Life Expectancy (at birth): 43…

HIGHLIGHTS - The spring agricultural season started on 8 March as planned, with strong support from the international community for the double-crop trial programme. - WFP Executive Director scheduled to visit DPRK from 15 to 18 March. - DPRK officials tour…

Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin - Afghanistan (extract) The recent period has been dominated by the fact of the Taliban either asserting or extending their control over most of the country. Thus recently there have been maybe as many as 100 000 newly…

This is an excerpt of the original WFP report which includes: A) Albania B) Democratic People's Republic of Korea C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania D) Uganda E) Ethiopia F) Angola. PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) B.…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0111 1. Cyclone Justin has been affecting Papua New Guinea. National Disaster and Emergency Services (NDES) of the Government confirms 8 deaths from incidents in various parts of the country with 24 missing. Between 1,000 and 1,500…

The United Nations is to send a team to North Korea on Tuesday to assess the country's humanitarian needs in advance of a fresh appeal to the international community for further aid. The three-member team from the U-N Department of…

Food Shortage in North Korea Contact: Mike Kiernan at (202) 667-8227 x116 or mkiernan@interaction.org North Korean Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Gye Gwa deplored the political conditions placed by the U.S. government on further U.S. emergency assistance to North Korea…