UN calls for food aid for starving North Koreans despite sanctions
(The Guardian North Korea)

Exclusive: western donors urged to `put children before politics´ in face of food shortfallThe head of the UN World Food Programme has called for the White House and other western donors to put children´s lives before politics and fund a major injection of aid to North Korea despite the failure of Donald Trump´s summit with Kim Jong-un.David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina who backed Trump´s campaign for the US presidency, said he had heard concerns that responding to an appeal from Pyongyang would prop up the Kim regime. Continue reading...