51.   Hall, who recently returned from a trip to North Korea, urged an increase in food aid and said previous aid had made it to the intended recipients.

52.   Giving food aid to the rebels was more likely to prolong the conflict rather than solve it, he suggested.

53.   He defected after attending a conference in Japan, where he failed to obtain food aid.

54.   However, he did confirm last week that new refugees are not being allowed to enter camps or register to receive food aid.

55.   Hwang had just concluded a trip to Japan, trying to gather support for emergency food aid to relieve the food shortage in North Korea.

56.   In essence, Washington has been bribing crop-starved North Korea with food aid to try to keep it from firing a missile.

57.   In an unprecedented apology that some saw as a sign the North was desperate for food aid, Pyongyang expressed regret for the incident.

58.   In our short life as a free nation we have seen a tendency by some of the donor countries to insist, for instance, on providing food aid.

59.   In September, Governor Yury Yevdokimov appealed to Norway, Finland, and Sweden for food aid.

60.   In the drive to improve relations, the United States and South Korea have announced food aid to North Korea, which is experiencing widespread famine.