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ROME (AP) - North Korea will formally ask the U.N. World Food Program for aid for children and pregnant women, several months after the communist nation demanded a halt to emergency food help, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The request will be made at a Thursday meeting at the agency's Rome headquarters, spokeswoman Anthea Webb said.
Last year, North Korea demanded that international aid groups stop sending emergency humanitarian assistance such as food by the end of 2005, and Webb said the U.N. agency complied with that request.
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