Food

24 November 1995

Press Release
WFP/1019

FIRST UN FOOD AID TO ARRIVE IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

19951124 ROME, 23 November (WFP) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) will deliver an emergency shipment of rice to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 24 November for distribution to 500,000 hungry people left destitute by recent floods.

The initial shipment of 5,140 tons of rice represents the first United Nations food aid ever sent to the country.