41.   U.N. agencies say the reclusive communist state needs massive outside aid to avert widespread famine.

42.   With North Korea only weeks away from widespread famine, Red Cross officials from North Korea and South Korea prepared Saturday to discuss deliveries of food aid.

43.   With North Korea only weeks away from widespread famine, Red Cross officials from North Korea and South Korea opened discussions Saturday on deliveries of emergency food aid.

44.   He attributed the cause of the widespread famine to growing insecurity and lack of employment.

45.   A spokesman said Kabul was not yet in the grips of widespread famine but warned that the weak and ill were dying from complications linked to malnutrition.

46.   Barber said Kabul was not yet in the grips of a widespread famine, but warned that the weak and ill were dying from complications linked to malnutrition.

47.   British Aid agency OXFAM called on the international community Tuesday to mobilise emergency food supplies to avert widespread famine across a huge swathe of Sub-Saharan Africa.

48.   But officials complain privately that both governments have moved slowly in addressing what aid workers describe as a widespread famine.

49.   The reason so many North Koreans fleeing brutal repression and widespread famine are able to enter China is obvious at the border town of Kaishantun.

50.   They have fled a deeply repressive regime as well as widespread famine caused by the collapse of the centrally planned economy and natural disasters, the groups said.