60,000 North Korean children may 餓死する, 許可/制裁s slow 援助(する) - UNICEF

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - An 概算の 60,000 children 直面する 可能性のある 餓死 in North Korea, where international 許可/制裁s are 悪化させるing the 状況/情勢 by slowing 援助(する) 配達/演説/出産s, the 国際連合 Children's 基金 (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

World 力/強力にするs have 課すd growing 許可/制裁s on North Korea for its 核の and 弾道学の ミサイル programmes. Last week the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs 発表するd fresh 許可/制裁s on nine (独立の)存在s, 16 people and six North Korean ships it (刑事)被告 of helping the 武器s programmes.

Under 国際連合 安全 会議 決意/決議s, 人道的な 供給(する)s or 操作/手術s are 免除された from 許可/制裁s, Omar Abdi, UNICEF 副 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある director, said.

"But what happens is that of course the banks, the companies that 供給する goods or ship goods are very careful. They don´t want to take any 危険 of later on 存在 associated (with) breaking the 許可/制裁s," Abdi told a news 要点説明.

"That is what makes it more difficult for us to bring things. So it takes a little bit longer, 特に in getting money into the country. But also in shipping goods to DPRK. There are not many shipping lines that operate in that area," he said, referring to the Democratic People's 共和国 of Korea.

許可/制裁s on 燃料 have been 強化するd, making it more 不十分な and expensive, Abdi 追加するd.

Reuters, 特記する/引用するing three Western European 知能 sources, 報告(する)/憶測d 排他的に last week that North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year which was then 配達するd to South Korea and Japan in a likely 違反 of U.N. 許可/制裁s.

"We are 事業/計画(する)ing that at some point during the year 60,000 children will become 厳しく 栄養失調の. This is the 栄養不良 that 潜在的に can lead to death. It's protein and calorie 栄養不良," said Manuel Fontaine, director of UNICEF 緊急 programmes 世界的な.

"So the 傾向 is worrying, it's not getting any better."

In all, 200,000 North Korean ch ildren を煩う 激烈な/緊急の 栄養不良, 含むing 60,000 with the most 厳しい form that can be lethal, によれば UNICEF.

UNICEF had 事業/計画(する)d 60,000 children would 苦しむ 厳しい 激烈な/緊急の 栄養不良 last year, and reached 39,000 of them with 治療力のある feeding, 広報担当者 Christophe Boulierac said.

"Diarrhoea 関係のある to poor 衛生設備 and hygiene and 激烈な/緊急の 栄養不良 remains a 主要な 原因(となる) of death の中で young children," it said in Tuesday's 控訴,上告 to 寄贈者s that gave no (死傷者)数.

UNICEF is 捜し出すing $16.5 million this year to 供給する 栄養, health and water to North Koreans but 直面するs "操作の challenges" 予定 to the 緊張した political 状況 and "unintended consequences" of 許可/制裁s, it said.

It 特記する/引用するd "disruptions to banking channels, 延期するs in (疑いを)晴らすing 救済 items at 入ること/参加(者) ports, difficulty 安全な・保証するing 供給者s and a 160 パーセント 増加する in 燃料 prices".

"It's a very の近くに, and tightly 監視するd 介入 which is 純粋に 人道的な in its essence," Fontaine said.

UNICEF is one of only a few 援助(する) 機関s with 接近 to the 孤立するd country, which 苦しむd 飢饉 in the 中央の-1990s that killed up to three million people. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Peter Graff)

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