DPR

Maurice Strong

UN intensifies efforts to bring DPR of Korea back to nuclear talks, envoy says

11 February 2005
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) withdrawal from six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programme is "a very real bump in the road" and the United Nations is intensifying efforts to secure a resumption of negotiations since the alternative to a peaceful solution is "so horrendous," the top UN envoy on the issue said today.
Annan (R) and Jack Straw brief reporters in London

Annan calls on DPR of Korea's partners to bring it back to nuclear talks

10 February 2005
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the countries engaged in the talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to bring the country back to the negotiating table as quickly as possible following its announcement that it had pulled out indefinitely from discussions on its nuclear weapons programme.

UN needs $202 million to feed 6.5 million hungry people in DPR of Korea

27 January 2005
With millions of children, women and elderly in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) barely living at subsistence level, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it needed $202 million for 2005 to feed the 6.5 million most desperately hungry, over a quarter of the total population.