North said to give food aid to military
TOKYO - Pyeongyang has not distributed food donations from the world to civilians, but used them for military purposes, three North Koreans who recently escaped the communist regime said Friday.The defectors, including Lee Yeong-guk, who once served as bodyguard to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, held a press conference here. "Food supplied from the international community is piled up in military storage as preparatory materials for war," Mr. Lee said.
Lee Jae-keun, another defector, testified that Pyeongyang put on a show of distributing food to civilians whenever inspection teams from the World Food Program come to the North.
An international conference on human rights in the North and North Korean refugees starts Saturday in Tokyo.
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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