By World Food Program | Headquarters
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Amir Abdulla, of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today said that the agency’s emergency operation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) - which aims to assist 6.2 million vulnerable and hungry people - is grossly under-funded.
WFP has received $75 million and would require $504 to reach all the hungry in the DPRK. Accordingly, WFP is scaling back its operation as announced at a press briefing in Beijing this morning.
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