Aid agency pulls out of North Korea

  • 29/12/1997

The largest international charity operating in North Korea announced that it was pulling out because the Communist government had refused to give the charity access to a large population of malnourished and ailing children. The move, rare for an international organization, underscored the growing problem that Western aid agencies are having in North Korea as they try to determine whether the medicine and food are getting to the truly needy in the isolated Asian nation.