[USFK Forums] Food agency director to ask North to relent [JoongAng]

[C. Y. Lee]

[Uploaded by C. Y. Lee on Wednesday, December 14, 2005]
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Food agency director to ask North to relent

The JoongAng Daily, December 14, 2005 ㅡ James Morris, executive director of the World Food Program, arrived in Pyongyang yesterday to discuss the United Nations agency’s relief program in the communist country.

The North’s Korea Central News Agency said yesterday that Choe Su-hon, North Korea’s vice foreign minister, and Richard Reagan, the World Food Program’s country representative in the North, greeted Mr. Morris at the airport.Mr. Morris will be in Pyongyang until tomorrow in an attempt to settle the conflict with the North Korean government over the continuation of aid operations.

The North asked the World Food Program and other international relief agencies in August to leave the country by the end of this year. Mr. Morris said his group would comply if the North persisted in its demand.