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T h e F r e s h e s t P o l i t i c s f o r N e w s J u n k i e s

A North Korean woman and her child receive treatment at a hospital in Kangwon county, Pyongyang province on June 18, 2008. The MV Baltimore arrived with 37,000 tons of wheat to be distributed under an expanded World Food Programme (WFP) food assistance programme, the first instalment of 500,000 tonnes of food promised by Washington to the communist state earlier in 2008, to enable the WFP to feed more than five million people compared to the current 1.2 million. AFP PHOTO/World Food Programme/Lena Savelli/HO RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE

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