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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea plans to resume full-scale food rationing across the impoverished communist country after ending grain sales, a U.N. relief agency said.
"As of Oct. 1, reports are that cereal sales in the markets will cease and public distribution centers will take over countrywide distribution," the World Food Program said in a Friday-dated report posted on its Web site.
North Korea significantly scaled back its food-rationing system in July 2002 while introducing an economic reform program that increased wages. The reform measures failed, however, as inflation soared amid shortages of food and other goods.
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