{"id":128984,"date":"2017-11-07T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128984"},"modified":"2017-11-07T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:55:16","slug":"un-food-agency-chief-plans-to-visit-north-korea-amid-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/un-food-agency-chief-plans-to-visit-north-korea-amid-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"UN food agency chief plans to visit North Korea amid drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128988\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/708px-GovernorBeasley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128988\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/708px-GovernorBeasley.jpg\" alt=\"Governor David Beasley in Annapolis (Photo By Marylandstater - Own work, CC0)\" width=\"708\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/708px-GovernorBeasley.jpg 708w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/708px-GovernorBeasley-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Governor David Beasley in Annapolis (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=14642392\">Photo By Marylandstater &#8211; Own work, CC0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The head of the U.N. World Food Program says he plans to visit North Korea, which is facing drought and \u201ca lot of people starving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Beasley told The Associated Press on Monday that \u201cwe want to make the case very clearly that innocent children should not starve to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think the North Korean government understands, as I have made it clear, that Western donors don&#8217;t feel comfortable giving, because money that they think should be helping children is being used to build a nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to WFP, the U.N. is seeking $52 million for North Korea in 2017, but has received just $15 million. Without an urgent contribution of $10 million, WFP says it may have to suspend assistance in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the U.N. World Food Program says he plans to visit North Korea, which is facing drought and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[31578,1509,31577],"class_list":["post-128984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-david-beasley","tag-north-korea","tag-u-n-world-food-program","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}