Via a reader tip comes news that the United Nations’ World Food Program plans to restart food aid to North Korea:
The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) will resume humanitarian food aid to 771,000 North Koreans, the Voice of America said Saturday, citing a WFP report.
Korea Times
In the report, the WFP said it needs an estimated US$27.5 million from July to December to help the North handle the COVID-19 pandemic, and it lacks $3 million.
The WFP said there was a need to find out what impact a two-month delay in North Korea reopening its schools had on the health of children in the reclusive state, given North Korean children usually receive 85 percent of their necessary nutrients from food provided by schools and public organizations.
You can read more at the link, but this food aid is just another sanctions busting scheme. The Kim regime can afford to feed their own people, but they choose not to. They would rather divert their resources to nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles and let the international community pick up the bill of feeding their malnourished people.
Not a good look for USFK:
Dozens of foreigners presumed to be American citizens or soldiers created disturbances by setting off firecrackers at a renowned beach in Busan on Saturday night apparently in celebration of Independence Day in the United States, resulting in the brief detention of a soldier, police said Monday.
The foreigners shot numerous rounds of firecrackers into the sky and even towards citizens for two hours, beginning around 7 p.m., on and around Haeundae Beach in the southern port city in an apparent Fourth of July party, according to the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency.
Police received more than 70 reports of complaints from Busan citizens concerned about wild and dangerous acts by foreign people not wearing face masks particularly amid the ongoing social distancing campaign to stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
The foreigners, whom the police presumed to be American soldiers on vacation to celebrate the Fourth of July, were accused of shooting firecrackers towards citizens, as well as at nearby buildings, and mocking the police.
Indeed, six patrol cars and one team of police officers came to the scene of disturbances and attempted to disperse the foreigners, but some of them continued to set off firecrackers. In the process, one U.S. soldier in his 20s was briefly detained while fleeing after shooting firecrackers at citizens.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link.
It appears the Korean left will deal with the comfort women scandal by attempting to erase any memory of it instead of holding those accountable for allowing the fraud to happen:
A shelter for surviving victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery is set to be closed after the last resident recently left the facility, the operator said Saturday.
Korea Times via a reader tip
Gil Won-ok, 92, left the shelter June 11 to stay at a church operated by her 61-year-old stepson, priest Hwang Sun-hee, according to the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance (Korea Council), the nongovernmental organization working for South Korea’s “comfort women,” that is currently mired in an alleged embezzlement scandal
The Korea Council said it has yet to decide when to close the shelter in Mapo District, western Seoul, and return it to the Myungsung Church, which owns the property.
The planned shutdown comes as the head of the shelter was found dead at her apartment in Paju, north of Seoul, early last month.
You can read more at the link.
It has been 70 years since the first U.S. battalion of troops entered the Korean War to fight for the freedom of South Korea. The unit was called Taskforce Smith, after Lieutenant Colonel Charles Smith who led the 1-21 Infantry Regiment into action against the North Koreans near Osan. You can read more about the battle and the monument constructed in its honor at the links below.
North Korea claims they have zero coronavirus cases, but Kim Jong-un is out calling for strict countermeasures to combat the virus:
North Korea’s main newspaper called Sunday for carrying out leader Kim Jong-un’s order that the country exercise “maximum alert” against the coronavirus pandemic.
Kim issued the order during a politburo meeting Thursday, warning that premature easing of anti-virus measures will lead to an “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis.”
The appeal was seen as a sign that the North’s COVID-19 situation could be serious, though Pyongyang claims there has not been a single case. It was the second time in three months that the North has convened a politburo meeting to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.
On Sunday, the Rodong Sinmun said all people should rise up to carry out the leader’s order.
“In a situation where the prospect of resolving the risk is uncertain, we should be on maximum alert without becoming complacent or slackening,” the paper said in an editorial, calling for “absolute” obedience to anti-virus regulations and orders.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link.
Please leave anything you want to discuss in the comments section. For all my American readers I hope you have a great Independence Day weekend!
