WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it had begun a new assessment of impoverished North Korea's food needs, as an influential Republican U.S. senator warned the Obama administration against resuming such aid to the communist nation without adequate monitoring.
Sen. Richard Lugar, the leading Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any resumption should depend on ensuring that aid gets to hungry civilians rather than to the military, "whose care is already a priority over the rest of the population."
North Korea suffered a famine in the early and mid 1990s and still struggles to feed its people. It reportedly has asked the United States and other …
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