NK to stop food rationing in May

The World Food Program (WFP) said Tuesday that North Korea is likely to suspend its food rationing in early May.

In its emergency relief report No. 16, the WFP made such a forecast, noting that food ration for an adult had been reduced to 200 grams from 300 to 400 grams a day in March.

The United Nation`s agency also said that North Korea`s food-short spring season had started earlier than other years as the distribution of last year`s grain harvest had ended at the end of January. The United States sent grain worth $10.9 million, including 30,000 tons of wheat and 10,000 tons of beans to the WFP, but the North is still short of 349,000 tons of grain, it said.

Ha Tae-Won scooop@donga.com