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Allow international humanitarian
agencies, including WFP, to resume necessary food supply operations and to
properly monitor aid according to normal international protocols for
transparency and accountability. These standards include having access to the
entire country, being able to make unannounced visits, and being able to select
interviewees at random.
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Ensure its distribution system is
both fair and adequately supplied, or permit citizens alternate means to get
food, including access to markets and aid.
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End discrimination in government
distribution of food in favor of high-ranking Workers Party officials,
military, intelligence and police officers, and against the hostile class
deemed politically disloyal to the government and Party.
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Assist young children, pregnant
and nursing women, and the elderly as priority recipients of food aid.
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Ensure that prisoners receive
adequate levels of food, health care, and rest, and that their rights,
including their right to be free from physical and mental abuse, are generally
respected.
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Work with relevant U.N. agencies
to expand current food-for-work programs for the jobless. Develop programs to
prioritize assisting vulnerable populations, such as directly providing food to
those incapable of participating in food-for-work programs.
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Encourage North Korea to accept WFPs new proposal to assist 1.9 million of North Koreas most vulnerable
population, including a guarantee of adequate monitoring for aid distribution
(details of WFPs proposal are explained later in the report).
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Publicly and privately urge North Korea to guarantee the right to food and other basic rights. Condemn politically
motivated discrimination in the allocation of food rations and oppose ongoing
restrictions on free expression in North Korea that limit public access to
critical information on food supplies. Urge North Korean officials to allow
alternatives to the Public Distribution System to improve chances that all
North Koreans will have access to a reliable and adequate supply of grain.
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Insist on using internationally
acceptable standards when monitoring the distribution of food aid to North Korea. Such standards include granting monitors access to the entire country and
allowing them to select interviewees at random and make unannounced visits.
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Insist on using internationally
acceptable standards, as summarized immediately above, when monitoring
distribution of food aid to North Korea.
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Allow humanitarian organizations
to operate along North Korean border.
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Allow people fleeing hunger
sanctuary on Chinese soil.
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As a state party to the Refugee
Convention, honor international obligations to protect refugees and stop
arresting and repatriating North Koreans to North Korea, where they could face
persecution for the simple act of leaving the country without permission in
search of food.
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Continue to offer food aid to meet
the needs of North Koreas vulnerable population on a humanitarian basis.
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Press North Korea to accept food
assistance from the WFP and other aid organizations and to allow such organizations
to apply internationally acceptable monitoring standards, including by granting
them sufficient freedom of movement to carry out their work.
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Press China to stop arresting and
repatriating North Koreans, and to allow humanitarian NGOs to operate along its
border with North Korea.
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