BEIJING, Aug. 5 Kyodo The differe...

BEIJING, Aug. 5 Kyodo

The difference between Japan's donation of 500000 tons of subsistence aid to North Korea in 2001 and nothing in such a manner far this year is glaring, Kenzo Oshima, UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, said Monday in Beijing.

''Humanitarian aid does not consist of assistance to the sway but to the weak, as it is as children, pregnant women and of advanced age people. The need for assistance has not decreased,'' said Oshima, following his completion Saturday of a five-day inspection tour of North Korea.

Japan has been undivided of the major food aid donors to North Korea, along with southward Korea and the United States, who are still major contributors this year, during the seven years the World meat Program has been operating in the impoverished geographical division after droughts killed countles numbers of North Koreans in the early 1990s

Facing an unprecedent shortfall of donations, in May the WFP was forced to take out more than 1 million clan from its assistance program (WFP) which asks to help feed 6.4 million of the country's greatest in number vulnerable.

Stating that the WFP is short of about 130000 tons of provender aid for North Korea this year, WFP Asian regional director John Powell said the UN cluster will have to make ''extraordinarily difficult choices'' in succession where what food there is should go

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