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North Korea Holds Off on Accepting Humanitarian Aid

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. (AXcess News) UN officials were concerned over Pyongyang's decision to hold off on accepting humanitarian aid shipments at the end of this year, saying North Korean officials were premature in making that move. North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon informedthe United Nationsthat his country no longer wants international humanitarian aid, sayinga good harvest had led to larger food supplies.

Travel Agency (AXcess News) Hong Kong - UN officials were concerned over Pyongyang's decision to hold off on accepting humanitarian aid shipments at the end of this year, saying North Korean officials were premature in making that move.

Roh said he would work to establish a concrete agreement on "building military trust and addressing humanitarian matters." joung told reporters in Seoul Monday that the two Koreas would discuss peace in broad terms, but acknowledged they could not tackle the issue alone. Any real peace treaty would require the participation of the United States and China, which signed the original armistice. North Korea also signed, while the South did not.

Cheap Hotel North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon informedthe United Nationsthat his country no longer wants international humanitarian aid, sayinga good harvest had led to larger food supplies.

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Flight Booking The United Nations hopes to persuade North Korean officials to change their minds.

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Travel Agent The UN-run World Food Program has helpedNorth Korea battle malnutrition in the past by providing food to 6.5 million of the country's 23 million residents.

The New York Times says the U.S. proposal would amount to a quarantine of North Korea, although administration officials are not using that word. In its editions Monday, The newspaper cites several American and Asian officials as saying the main purpose of the move would be to give China political cover to police its border with North Korea. North Korean border reportedly is now largely open to shipments of arms, North Korea's main source of hard currency. Voice of America

Hotel Chicago UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland was qouted as saying, "Forty-percent of the children there are stunted andlower in height for the age for what is normal, and 20 percent are still underweight."

Online Booking Pyongyang's refusal to accept humanitarian aid comes at a time when the communist government there is in the midst of six-party talks over its nuclear weapons program and its move to cut aid may be viewed as a bargaining chip by the North Korean communist regime.

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