联合国呼吁为面临粮食危机的众多朝鲜人提供1亿1100万美元援助。
联合国朝鲜人道事务协调员伊萨克扎伊对美国之音记者贝希尔说，这笔款项将帮助在当地工作的五个联合国救援机构2015年继续为朝鲜人提供食品、洁净水和其他基本生活用品。
联合国说，70%的朝鲜人口，也就是1800万朝鲜人面临粮食短缺，而且缺乏多样化营养。
伊萨克扎伊表示，在这些人当中，将近200万人亟需食品救援，其中大多数是儿童、孕妇、哺乳期妇女和老年人，此外还有35万妇女和儿童需要疫苗和保健用品。
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.
