According to Agence France-Presse, South Korea's central bank announced on May 28 that agricultural output fell 15 percent in North Korea in 2000 due to drought and natural disasters. As a result, the people of North Korea will continue to live on reduced food rations. The UN World Food Program has appealed for 810,000 tons of international food aid this year to assist some 8 million hunger-stricken North Koreans, mainly children and the elderly. In a humanitarian emergency, time is short.
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