World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Beijing - WFP has delivered the first humanitarian assistance to hospital victims of North Korea\'s railway disaster, and is pledging to feed thousands of others left injured or homeless for as long as necessary despite severe funding shortages.

Pyongyang WFP announces that it has taken extraordinary measures to partially resume food supplies to North Korea\'s hungriest people. But it warned that 1.5 million vulnerable people will still go hungry over the next six weeks, and that without additional donations soon, millions of malnourished will be deprived of food in the second half of the year.

Auckland - WFP Executive Director James Morris warmly welcomes a NZ$370,000 (US$250,000) donation by New Zealand to the cash-strapped WFP emergency operation in North Korea, which was announced as he began his first official visit to the country.

Pyongyang WFP welcomes the arrival of a major shipment of Russian food aid that will help support millions of malnourished children and women in the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea over the coming weeks. The donation is the largest part of an $11 million dollar contribution by Russia, it\'s first ever through WFP.