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WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- There have been no aid food shipments to North Korea from the United States this year, according to officials of a U.S. aid agency.
In addition, the U.S. Agency for International Development said the Bush administration may halt food aid to North Korea through the end of 2005, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
However, Bush administration officials deny any link between food aid and rising diplomatic tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Officials said the aid curtailment was the result of competing demands from famine-ravaged countries in Africa and that food shipments might be resumed later this year.
"Our policy is to help the North Korean people with humanitarian assistance, regardless of any political dispute," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in an interview with the Journal. "We have raised (with the North Koreans) the importance of ensuring that the food is getting through to the people who need it."
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