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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News World Food Program seeks to triple funding for food assistance in North KoreaUN organization says it will need $42M for DPRK programs in first half, a sign of preparations for eventual reopening
The World Food Program (WFP) estimates that it will need three times more funding for its programs targeting North Koreans in the first half of this year compared to last year, a sign that the U.N. organization is preparing in earnest for the possibility that the country reopens to foreign aid workers and international assistance. In its latest Global Operational Response Plan published Friday, the WFP projects funding needs of $42 million from Feb. to July 2023 — a threefold increase from the $14 million that the organization said that it needed for the same period last year. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |