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The US has suspended food aid to North Korea because Pyongyang has broken its promise to refrain from missile launches and cannot be trusted to deliver the aid to those who need it, a Pentagon official has said.
A planned rocket launch next month by North Korea "reflects their lack of desire to follow through on their international commitments", Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs, told US legislators, on Wednesday.
"So we've been forced to suspend our activities to provide nutritional assistance to North Korea," he said before the House Armed Services Committee.In light of North Korea's actions, the US had "no confidence" that it was possible to "to ensure that the food assistance goes to the starving people and not the regime elite".
Under a deal reached last month, North Korea had agreed to a partial nuclear freeze and a missile test moratorium in return for US food aid.
The US had previously warned that any launch would jeopardise food assistance, but the official's comments at a congressional hearing marked a tougher stance and made clear plans to deliver aid had already been scrapped.
Read more@: US suspends food aid to North Korea - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
Well DPRK is a pretty stupid state. DPRK wants to go to space, we say no. They say **** you. They continue, we pull aid... Stupid, stupid country ran by stupid stupid leaders.
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