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Won-Gi Jung
Won-Gi Jung is a reporter based in Seoul. He previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and East Asia Institute. Follow him on Twitter: @jungwongida.
The United Nations dropped North Korea from its 2021 humanitarian response plan after facing troubles with the country’s COVID-19 protective measures this year.
Earlier this week, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published its latest Global Humanitarian Overview report, which lists countries in need and includes corresponding response plans. In the report, the U.N. vows to help 160 million people worldwide as the globe struggles with “the deepest global recession since the 1930s.”