The United Nations has recommitted to offering food assistance to North Korea through December 2024.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) noted its continued support in an undated document posted to the organization’s website outlining persistent humanitarian challenges faced by the authoritarian nation’s citizens.
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continues to face a wide range of challenges, despite the fact that for several years, the country’s food supply has been remarkably stable,” WFP wrote on its website.
The new budget and distribution plan has been prepared anticipating a return of U.N. officials to North Korea after years of absence.
WFP officials have had practically zero access to the country since March 2021, when the last remaining U.N. employees exited amid some of the harshest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world.
Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
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