{"id":15330,"date":"2013-04-21T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-21T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:04:43","slug":"US-would-consider-food-aid-request-from-N-Korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15330","title":{"rendered":"US would consider food aid request from N Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States would consider any new request from North Korea to resume food aid stalled since 2009, provided Pyongyang allowed US staff inside the isolated country to monitor distribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But any such requests would have to be balanced against demands from other countries as well as US &#8220;ability to be monitor the delivery of that assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>US officials would also need to be allowed into the country to make their own assessment<\/strong>, as well as to monitor distribution, he added, speaking amid heightened tensions with the North which has unleashed a series of bellicose threats in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The United States last provided food aid to North Korea from late 2008 to March 2009.<\/strong> Some 170,000 tonnes out of an expected 500,000 tonnes of food aid was delivered, until Pyongyang expelled US workers monitoring the distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had not been able to monitor where some 22,000 tonnes of food had gone, King said. &#8220;They ended it. 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