聯合國呼籲爲朝鮮提供人道援助

The United Nations has launched an appeal for $111 million to help a vast portion of North Korea's population now facing a food crisis.

U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for North Korea Ghulam Isaczai told VOA's Margaret Besheer the funding will help five U.N. aid agencies working on the ground to continue providing North Koreans with food, clean water and other basics in 2015.

The United Nations says 70 percent of the population, or 18 million North Koreans, are food insecure and lack nutritional diversity.

But Isaczai said of those, nearly 2 million, mostly children, pregnant and lactating women and the elderly, are in dire need of food assistance, and another 350,000 women and children need vaccines and health supplies.聯合國呼籲爲面臨糧食危機的衆多朝鮮人提供1億1100萬美元援助。

聯合國朝鮮人道事務協調員伊薩克扎伊對美國之音記者貝希爾說，這筆款項將幫助在當地工作的五個聯合國救援機構2015年繼續爲朝鮮人提供食品、潔淨水和其他基本生活用品。

聯合國說，70%的朝鮮人口，也就是1800萬朝鮮人面臨糧食短缺，而且缺乏多樣化營養。

伊薩克扎伊表示，在這些人當中，將近200萬人亟需食品救援，其中大多數是兒童、孕婦、哺乳期婦女和老年人，此外還有35萬婦女和兒童需要疫苗和保健用品。