DPR

‘Indispensable’ civil society can help build trust on Korean peninsula – Annan

15 August 2005
Praising the crucial role civil society groups play in international affairs, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged Korean and international civic actors meeting in New York to help build the trust, confidence and goodwill necessary to ensure a peninsula free of nuclear weapons and to bring an end to the Korean conflict.
Children at a government-run orphanage

DPR of Korea: UN appeals for urgent new donations to feed millions of hungry

9 August 2005
Warning that its emergency operation feeding 6.5 million particularly vulnerable people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is severely under-funded, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed urgently for new donations to carry it through until the end of the year.
Kofi Annan

Annan praises 'spirit of mutual respect' at Korean nuclear talks

9 August 2005
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today praised the "spirit of mutual respect" achieved at the fourth round of the six-party talks for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which took place in Beijing.