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Breaking News (?): N. Korea Not To Be Trusted With Aid

International food aid sent to ease the suffering of North Koreans is being sold on the black market for high prices, according to video footage released Wednesday by Japanese and South Korean human rights activists.

The activists said the footage was secretly taken in September in Haesan, a North Korean town on the border with China.

It showed a marketplace where people were selling rice and other grains that the activists said was provided by South Korea, the U.N. World Food Program and other relief organizations.

Check out the story from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Matt's Chat

I'm shocked and appalled! Isn't everyone?

Mark's Remarks

DUH!!!! How to Communists get money in a system that doesn't work? They shaft their citizens!!!! I am sure the UN will make some resolutions, then do nothing....then make some more, and do nothing...until WE do something, then they will condemn it even though we make the world safer. Yep, that UN is so relevant today. Yes, indeed, cannot even make sure aid gets where it is supposed to. Very cogent and meaningful organization....NOT!!!!!