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Food Aid Update: “The World Food Program, a United Nations arm, will make a final decision next month on whether to shut down its office in North Korea’s capital city. Richard Ragan, the head of the relief agency’s office in Pyongyang, spoke by telephone to the JoongAng Ilbo yesterday. Mr. Ragan said his organization faces a choice between withdrawing and shifting the focus of its work in the North from food aid to longer-term agricultural development programs.”