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UN to review programs after US alleges aid abuse by N. Korea (AFP)
Filed: January 19th 2007: World

Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong II waits to greet Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in 2000. The United Nations vowed to probe its programs around the world after Washington charged that North Korea "has systematically perverted" UN development aid with the "complicity of the UN Development Program."(AFP/Pool/ITAR-TASS/File)AFP - The United Nations vowed to probe its programs around the world after Washington charged that North Korea "has systematically perverted" UN development aid with the "complicity of the UN Development Program."


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