The United States has canceled a food aid package intended to be delivered to North Korea due to the discovery that North Korea plans to launch a satellite into space using missiles, which is widely agreed as being a front in order to further their ballistic missile technology,
However, this is not the only reason, Peter Lavoy, acting assistant Secretary of Defense in Asia & the Pacific, states he has no confidence that the food we are delivering is being distributed to the people in need, with past aid packages having been largely hogged by the political elite.
This is all directly in contrast with what North Korea promised last month, claiming that they would halt tests and launches that related to nuclear and ballistic missile technology. Upon hearing this, the US agreed to contribute 240,000 metric tons of food. However, since food aid monitors were forced to leave Korea, we do not have any way of knowing if the the overwhelming amount of malnourished children and women are receiving aid.
It angers and disgusts me whenever I read about the various ways North Korea uses its starving people as a bargaining token in international relations. They are basically being bribed by the US to stop their nuclear testing, but as soon as they receive aid, they return right back to their original efforts and the people suffer as a result.
This is all directly in contrast with what North Korea promised last month, claiming that they would halt tests and launches that related to nuclear and ballistic missile technology. Upon hearing this, the US agreed to contribute 240,000 metric tons of food. However, since food aid monitors were forced to leave Korea, we do not have any way of knowing if the the overwhelming amount of malnourished children and women are receiving aid.
It angers and disgusts me whenever I read about the various ways North Korea uses its starving people as a bargaining token in international relations. They are basically being bribed by the US to stop their nuclear testing, but as soon as they receive aid, they return right back to their original efforts and the people suffer as a result.
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