Reply #69: Pyongyang blocks deliveries of aid from South Korea [View All]

[maddezmom]

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The North's hospitals are impoverished and aid workers who visited victims at the nearby Sinuiju provincial hospital described great suffering.

The regional director of the WFP in Asia, Tony Banbury, said he saw children "rolling and moaning in pain" with cuts to their face treated by a rudimentary twine stitching.

"Some of the kids had lost sight in both eyes. Two were laid out on cabinets. Several mothers had climbed into the beds of their wounded children," he told Reuters from Pyongyang.

Journalists do not have good access to North Korea and are often forced to rely on the accounts of UN officials and NGOs to determine what is happening in the country.
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more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1203726,00.html