EU officials to go to DPRK to assess food situation: report

A team of European Union officials are arranging to check out the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) next month to assess the food scenario there, nearby media reported Sunday.

Officials from the Humanitarian Aid department from the European Commission will travel to the DPRK just after U.S. officials on a comparable go to wraps up their fact-checking mission, Seoul's semi- official Yonhap News Agency reported, citing an unspecified supply.

U.S. officials have been within the DPRK seeing that Might 24 to appear into the food wants of the country, that is stated to become faced with chronic food shortages affecting a quarter of its 24 million population.

Quite a few officials stay in the DPRK after Robert King, U.S. unique envoy for DPRK human rights who led the team of officials, left the nation Saturday after securing a release of a Korean American who had been held captive for months.

Seoul officials have appeared lackadaisical at most effective to calls for food help to Pyongyang by United Nations agencies, with its punitive measure against its northern neighbor like a drastic cut in help, place in location amid prolonged cross-border confrontation, nonetheless in place.

South Korea, skeptical of reported food requires of its neighbor, has allowed minimum emergency humanitarian help for by far the most vulnerable.

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