North Korea would flow to those who really need it, | The greatest need is in the concentration camps, not the elites of Pyongyang or the army. |
The US envoy for human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
in North Korea, Robert King, said talks with North Korean officials in the Chinese capital helped clear administrative roadblocks to the aid.
King suggested that worries about the food possibly being diverted by the North Korean government for its own needs had been dealt with.
"We've had very productive, positive talks," King told news hounds, many of them Japanese and South Korean, at Beijing airport. "I'm very satisfied with our discussions."
King said one of main topics of the talks was US concerns that the aid would go to truly needy people, and he answered "yes" when asked if he was confident on this point.
"We're still working on the details. Not all of those questions have been worked out," said King, when asked about when North Korea would begin receiving new aid shipments.