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[Intro] It is Time to Resume Efforts for Inter-Korean Cooperation and Exchanges
The New Leadership’s Policy to Be in Full Operation by March
“Make traditional rituals simple and economical” in Response to Food Shortage
SEOUL, February 21, 2012 (AFP) - South Korea will seek global support at a UN meeting next week for its efforts to rescue North Korean refugees recently arrested in China and facing repatriation, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Activists and Seoul lawmakers say about 30 North Koreans will be returned from China to the secretive state even though they face harsh punishment in their homeland.
The South Korean foreign ministry has not confirmed the total figure.
The Working Group expresses its strong objection to the decision of the United Nations Secretariat not to grant a waiver to the 10,700 word limit to the present report, as has been the case for almost every year since such a limit was imposed by the General Assembly in 1993.
This report covers the period 1/7/2011 to 31/12/2011
In brief
The IFRC’s East Asia regional office serves to support and build capacities within the national societies of the East Asia region. The region includes China, Mongolia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, and Japan. The IFRC has annual programmes that support the national societies in China, Mongolia, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
SEOUL, Feb 1 (Reuters) - North Korea's capital faces its worst electricity shortages in years just as a new leadership takes power in the impoverished state and pushes ahead with lavish building projects to celebrate the centenary of its founder's birth.
The Pyongyang-based diplomat, who asked not to be named, said the city of 3 million and home to the leadership elite, has seen daily power supplies almost evaporate as freezing winter temperatures bite.
Early in 2011, food price riots helped trigger one of the most unexpected and significant events of the past decade: the Arab Spring, which saw the downfall of governments in the Middle East, the death of a long-time dictator in Libya, and ongoing strife in Syria and Yemen.
As we begin 2012, do we face another round of riots and instability? What is the status of global hunger and food security? And what countries will be most vulnerable to food-related instability?
The CERF raised a record amount of US$465 million through the contributions of Member States, Observers, regional governments and the private sector. 2011 marks only the second time in the history of the Fund that it exceeded the $450 million target established for it by the General Assembly.
Additionally, $46.4 million was transferred from the CERF loan window to the grant window with the reduction of the loan element by the General Assembly.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned on Friday that a South Korean military drill around front-line islands could lead to a “full-scale war” as South Korean trucks crossed the border carrying private food aid for North Korean children.
UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children 2012 describes the daily situation of some of the world’s most vulnerable children and women in more than 25 countries and territories beset by emergencies and crisis.
Four Asian countries are receiving $35 million from a United Nations emergency fund which supports underfunded or forgotten humanitarian crises.
In total 13 countries, mainly in Africa, will share $104 million from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund or CERF.
25 janvier 2012 – La Secrétaire générale adjointe des Nations Unies aux affaires humanitaires, Valerie Amos, a annoncé mercredi l'octroi de 104 millions de dollars à 13 situations d'urgences négligées à travers le monde.
« Des millions de personnes ont besoin d'aide à travers le monde dans des endroits qui ne font plus la 'une' des médias. Ces fonds aideront à sauver des vies. J'espère que davantage de fonds seront rendus disponibles par des gouvernements et d'autres bailleurs de fonds pour soutenir nos interventions humanitaires », a déclaré Mme Amos.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
Reducing Food Waste Can Save Lives of North Koreans
River-Crossers Now Treated as War Criminals
Domestic Work for Chinese Residents is Most Desired Job
Wig Manufacturing Factory Worker, Mihyun’s Daily Life
(New York, 25 January 2012): The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos, today announced the allocation of some US$104 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster humanitarian operations in 13 neglected humanitarian emergencies around the world: Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Eritrea, Haiti, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Syria.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
North Korea has been described as a humanitarian basket case by a senior UN official.
The isolated Asian country has recently undergone a change in leadership with the international community hoping that it will open up and address human rights issues.
TOKYO (20 January 2012) – The new leadership in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was on Friday urged to address pressing human rights concerns and resolve long-standing issues, including the abduction of Japanese and other foreign nationals, by the UN’s independent expert on human rights in the country.
The Red Cross Society of China provided 6,000 boxes of instant noodles worth 300,000 RMB to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 16th, January 2012, in the requirement of the DPRK Red Cross.
Asked by RCSC, Liaoning provincial red cross bought disaster relief food and transferred them to Sinuiju from Dandong city.
Serious flood in DPRK led to crop failure in 2011.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
[Intro] The Power of A bowl of Rice
An Hoeryong, 10 Days Food Ration, like to Have “The New Life”
Nationwide Rally of Loyalty
In the Beginning of This year, Many Homes Up for Sale
Pyongyang Officials Use Bank Cards Instead of Foreign Currencies
