Food aid to North Korea
Briefing
05-05-2011
The chronic crisis which has affected one of the most isolated and authoritarian countries in the world for at least two decades poses a dilemma to the international community. The renewed famine facing the Korean population is largely "state-caused", even if recent climatic problems have worsened the situation.
Briefing
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- aid evaluation
- Asia and Oceania
- cooperation policy
- deterioration of the environment
- ENVIRONMENT
- food aid
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- humanitarian aid
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- military regime
- natural disaster
- North Korea
- nuclear non-proliferation
- political framework
- POLITICS
- rights and freedoms