https://www.alterinter.org/ We are social and political movements struggling against social injustices, neoliberalism, imperialism and war. We are building solidarity between social movements at the local, national and international level. More... en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.alterinter.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-c616d.png?1749672047 https://www.alterinter.org/ 42 144 https://www.alterinter.org/?European-Union-to-Send-Food-Aid-to-North-Korea https://www.alterinter.org/?European-Union-to-Send-Food-Aid-to-North-Korea 2011-07-04T18:34:25Z text/html en Stephen Castle and Mark McDonald <p>Responding to the growing threat of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, the European Union announced on Monday that it will provide about $14.5 million in emergency aid to feed more than some 650,000 North Koreans. <br class='autobr' /> The bloc's executive body, the European Commission, said that after its experts witnessed evidence of a developing crisis last month during a mission to North Korea, it negotiated an agreement with the North Koreans about how to monitor the delivery of assistance. (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.alterinter.org/?-NEWS-AND-ANALYSIS-" rel="directory">NEWS AND ANALYSIS</a> <img src='https://www.alterinter.org/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH100/arton3592-a9e15.jpg?1749739229' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='100' alt="" /> <div class='rss_chapo'><p>Responding to the growing threat of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, the European Union announced on Monday that it will provide about $14.5 million in emergency aid to feed more than some 650,000 North Koreans.</p></div> <div class='rss_texte'><p>The bloc's executive body, the European Commission, said that after its experts witnessed evidence of a developing crisis last month during a mission to North Korea, it negotiated an agreement with the North Koreans about how to monitor the delivery of assistance.</p> <p>“Increasingly desperate and extreme measures are being taken by the hard-hit North Koreans, including the widespread consumption of grass,” the European Commission said in a statement.</p> <p>The severity of the situation prompted a switch of tactics by the commission. In 2008, it stopped sending humanitarian aid to North Korea in favor of offering financing for longer-term development projects.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/world/asia/04union.html?scp=2&sq=North%20Korea&st=cse" class="spip_out" rel="external"><i>Read More...</i></a></p> <p>Source: The New York Times</p> <p>Photo: isafmedia (flickr)</p></div>