U.S. Looks at Food Aid for North Korea
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday that the United States was considering whether to give North Korea food aid this year. But it repeated its position that such aid is not tied to political factors, such as whether North Korea will resume six-party talks about its nuclear weapons ambitions.
“It’s wrong to say that we’ve halted it. We completed last year’s shipment of 50,000 tons and we’re considering what we might want to do this year,†spokesman Richard Boucher said. He was commenting on a Wall Street Journal report that Washington had halted food aid shipments to North Korea and might not provide any through the end of the year.
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