Rapports

SEOUL (Reuter) - Elderly couples in North Korea are committing suicide and children are being abandoned in the streets to die because of famine, a North Korean defector said Tuesday. ''There are cases where those (elderly) parents hang or drown…

TOKYO (Reuter) - North Korea has asked the United States to provide more than 100,000 tons of rice and loosen its economic sanctions in a move that could lead to Pyongyang joining proposed four-nation peace talks, a Japanese newspaper…

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - North Korea has been hit by a cholera outbreak that has infected hundreds of malnourished soldiers and civilians, killing many of them, a South Korean intelligence agency reported on Friday. Seoul health authorities said they…

TOKYO (Reuter) - North Korea warned on Monday that efforts by the U.S. Congress to cut back the supply of fuel oil Pyongyang was promised under a bilateral nuclear deal would cause it to rethink the 1994 pact. ''If the…

SEOUL, July 1 (Reuter) - South Korea handed $2 million to the United Nations World Food Programme on Monday in response to its appeal for food aid to North Korea, an official at South Korea's Unification Ministry said. "We have…

UN Consolidated Inter-agency appeal for Flood-Related Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)1 July 1996 - 31 March 1997 Table of ContentsExecutive SummaryIntroductionSectorsProject SummariesAnnexesEXECUTIVE SUMMARY The present appeal, prepared by the United Nations Department of…

TOKYO (Jul 1, 1996) - North Korea accused the U.S. Congress Monday of trying to cut back on supplying fuel oil which it needs and threatened to scrap a deal with Washington freezing the Stalinist country's ability to produce…

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: June 28, 1996 ATLANTA, GA. At the invitation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), The Carter Center, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, sent a team of agricultural experts to North Korea June 4-11.…

U P D A T E No. 5 Monday June 24th the UN convened a fund-raising meeting in Geneva to appeal to EU countries as well as Japan, South Korea and the US for further humanitarian aid to the…

Pyongyang 3/6/96 (Report #1) Joseph and I left Tokyo on March 3 and spent two nights in Beijing. The morning of March 4 we drove to the DPRK Embassy where our visas were waiting for us and…