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...suspension of the New York talks, then, was inevitable as soon as Chang Sung Gil, Pyongyang's ambassador to Egypt, walked into the U.S. Embassy and demanded asylum. Just as inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
...anyone starving to death. But perhaps that was because North Korean officials politely ignored CNN's requests to see the worst affected victims. Still, the vast majority of the thousands of people I saw were thin and in some cases mildly emaciated, even in the capital, Pyongyang, where more food is allotted to the populace than in the countryside. The officials refuse to discuss the UNICEF estimate that 80,000 children may soon die. They will say only that the famine is responsible for at least several dozen deaths caused by disease. They claim they are unable to provide...
...Huich'on kindergarten in central North Korea, the starving children appear almost skeletal. Nurses in Pyongyang hospitals can see their breath because the buildings have no heat. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program...
...State Department was skeptical of Hwang's warning. United Nations inspectors believe North Korea was left with only enough plutonium to fuel about two bombs after it agreed to freeze its nuclear-weapons program in 1994. The Pentagon saw no evidence that Pyongyang was preparing for an attack and did not order the 37,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea to a higher alert level...
...there was no doubt that North Korea was in danger of imploding economically. In Pyongyang, where food is most available, rations for bureaucrats have been reduced to between 3 and 6 oz. of rice per day. Many factories have closed; the rest are operating at 25% of capacity. Pyongyang is without electricity for hours each day. Many farmers are too weak from hunger to harvest crops or plant seeds. Not only have poor diets made North Koreans shorter and lighter over the past 20 years, but parents "may be raising a generation with lower IQs because of the malnutrition," says...