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UN food aid work in N.Korea to continue: Richardson
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will allow U.N. food aid workers to remain in the country, reversing a decision to close their offices and begin taking only long-term development assistance, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said on Saturday.

The World Food Programme said last week it had been forced to shut its food factories in the impoverished state amid concern 6.5 million people at high risk may face even greater hardship.

There will still be a sharp cut in the U.N. food aid agency's operation because Pyongyang wanted help to build industries instead, Richardson told reporters after a visit to the North.

"What the new agreement calls for is, one, the aid workers in the World Food Programme can stay, but they probably will have to stay under a renewed definition of what development aid is," Richardson said at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club.
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