Sanctions badly affect most needy in North Korea: UN report

‘The United Nations has warned that sanctions against North Korea are taking a serious toll on humanitarian aid activities in the country, where millions of women and children are reliant on donations.
A report by Tapan Mishra, the UN’s senior resident official in Pyongyang, says the bans slapped on the North over its nuclear and missile activities are causing a “radical decline” in donations among the needy in the Asian state.
Such donations, the report said, are badly needed by “18 million people, or 70 percent of the population, including 1.3 million children under five.”
North Korea has been the target of a broad array of tough sanctions by the US and the UN Security Council over its nuclear and missile tests.’
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