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Article: World Food Program's Food Aid Arrives in DPRK
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 23, 1996
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The World Food Program's (WFP) first consignments of food aid have
arrived in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to be
distributed to some 1.5 million people in the flood-stricken
country.
The U.S. cargo ship, the MV Tampa Bay, carrying 13,000 tons of
rice, corn meal and corn soya blend from the United States, arrived
on Tuesday and is presently unloading in the Nampo harbor, the WFP
said in a press release today.
Two DPRK ships, carrying 9,000 tons and 9,797 tons of rice
respectively, are also pulling into the Nampo harbor. The rice was
purchased in Vietnam with ...