Rapports

Situation Report from the DHA Coordinator in the Democratic Popular Republic of KOREA (DPRK) - Period covered: 15 March - 15 April 1997 HIGHLIGHTS - The humanitarian situation in DPRK is worsening. Information released by the Government and on-the-spot assessments conducted by…

Pledges and contributions The UK government has pledged more than US$400,000 against the Consolidated Appeal to the Halo Trust for demining activities in Afghanistan. From the frontline Fighting between the Taliban and forces of the Supreme Council for the Defence of Afghanistan…

SC/6356 Speakers Alarmed by Reports of Renewed Military Offensives; Concern Also Expressed over Presence of Terrorists, Growing Narcotics Trade Alarmed by reports of possible renewed military offensives in Afghanistan, speakers in the Security Council this afternoon urged the warring parties…

DATE=4/14/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-212839 TITLE=NORTH KOREA FOOD CRISIS (L ONLY) BYLINE=GIL BUTLER DATELINE=BEIJING CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM OFFICIAL IN PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA SAYS THERE MAY BE A DANGER OF STARVATION BY THE END OF THE YEAR, BUT THERE IS NOT YET…

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - North Korea's grain output last year was well below half its annual needs and the impoverished state must have almost completely depleted it by this month, South Korea's state research group said Monday. The Korea…

(1:27am AEST) Afghanistan's anti-Taliban alliance says it is preparing to open new fronts against the fundamentalist militia, in an escalation of the country's civil war. The alliance commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, was speaking in the northern district centre of Taluqan, one…

DATE=4/14/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-212885 TITLE=U-S-NORTH KOREA OVERNIGHTER (S ONLY) BYLINE=RON PEMSTEIN DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE TODAY (TUESDAY) THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO LATEST UNITED NATIONS FOOD APPEAL FOR NORTH KOREA. V-O-A'S CORRESPONDENT RON PEMSTEIN REPORTS FROM THE STATE…

(Excerpt from:) ICRC News In the early morning of 19 March the explosion of an ammunition dump caused panic in the town of Jalalabad some 120 km east of Kabul. The explosion, which occurred in the police headquarters compound, also destroyed…

WASHINGTON, DC -- Nearly two-thirds of the American public believe the U.S. government should prevent a famine in North Korea. The question, "If a potential famine exists in communist North Korea and the U.S. government had the ability to prevent the famine…

Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor TOKYO -- This was the week the world got serious about the possibility of a North Korean famine. An unusual degree of openness from North Korean officials, strident appeals from…