71.   While keeping some sanctions, the United States has contributed emergency food aid to the North and has expressed its readiness to exchange liaison offices whenever the North wants.

72.   A flag dispute between North and South Korea may disrupt a historic deal to provide the impoverished communist North with emergency food aid, government officials said Thursday.

73.   A ship loaded with hundreds of tons of emergency food aid landed Thursday evening in Freetown, where it will be used to feed thousands of hungry Sierra Leoneans.

74.   A plane carrying emergency food and medicine and communications equipment landed at Manihiki on Monday after villagers cleared the airstrip at Manihiki of debris.

75.   A U.S. congressional group returning from North Korea complained Tuesday that the country is too secretive about how it is distributing emergency food aid.

76.   Acknowledging a food crisis for the first time to the outside world, the reclusive communist state last week asked Japan for emergency food aid.

77.   Acknowledging a food crisis for the first time to the outside world, the reclusive communist state in the past week asked Japan for emergency food aid.

78.   Aid agencies ready emergency food, medicine.

79.   All Nippon Airways offered free transportation of emergency food supplies.

80.   Aid groups have warned of widespread starvation unless Freetown receives emergency food supplies to make up for the cutoff of supply routes from the interior.