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NK News reported on Monday (June 6) that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will visit North Korea from September 9 to 12, according to Kim Hye Kyung.
The United Nations said in a statement that they will visit local officials and humanitarian personnel in North Korea to identify the humanitarian situation in North Korea.
They will also meet North Koreans who are receiving humanitarian aid.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's visit to North Korea is the first since United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Secretary-General David Beasley's visit in May, but it is the first since November 2011 that OCHA senior officials are looking for North Korea. An estimated 10.3 million people are in need of humanitarian badistance, but international support has collapsed as tensions have intensified as a result of North Korea's testing of drug launches. missiles and nuclear missiles.
OCHA estimates that one in five children is slowly growing due to chronic food shortages and malnutrition in North Korea.
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