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BEIJING (AP) - The World Food Program has approved a plan to resume food aid to hunger-stricken North Korea but it won't begin until the communist regime allows more access to monitor where the aid goes, the U.N. agency said Friday.
The two-year plan to feed 1.9 million people was approved Thursday by the WFP's board in Rome. But donors rejected the North's restrictions limiting the agency to 10 foreign staff members and sharply reducing their ability to monitor aid distribution.
"They asked us to go back to the government and seek better conditions," said Gerald Bourke, a WFP spokesman in Beijing. "We will not resume until we have a satisfactory set of operating conditions agreed with the government."
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