美、朝糧食援助談判取得進展

A top U.S. envoy say progress was made in negotiations with North Korean officials on details of a plan to supply 240,000 tons of U.S. food aid to the communist nation. Robert King, the special envoy for human rights in North Korea, spoke to reporters after Wednesday's talks in Beijing.

The talks could clear the way for the first U.S. food assistance to North Korea in three years. Last week, Washington announced an agreement under which North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear and missile tests, and allow the return of United Nations nuclear inspectors, in return for food aid. Washington suspended its aid in 2009 after Pyongyang expelled U.S. food monitors amid concerns the food was being diverted to North Korea's military or political elite.美國的朝鮮人權問題特使羅伯特.金表示，美國與朝鮮就美國向這個共產黨國家提供24萬噸糧食的細節性談判取得進展。羅伯特.金星期三在北京會談後對記者發表了這一評論。

這次談判有可能爲美國3年來首次向朝鮮提供糧食援助掃清道路。上星期，華盛頓宣佈，根據一項協議，朝鮮同意凍結其核項目和導彈試射，並允許聯合國覈查人員返回朝鮮，以換取糧食援助。此前，在平壤驅逐美國糧食監督員後，華盛頓擔心援助的糧食落入朝鮮軍隊和主要政界成員手中，因此於2009年暫停實施對朝鮮的糧食援助計劃。