UNDP would like to resume N Korea work
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The United Nations Development Program says it would like the agency to resume its work in communist North Korea.
The agency pulled out last year after Pyongyang made it clear that it would not implement required changes to its relationship with the UNDP in order to boost transparency.
Those changes were called for after the United States said some of the hard currency UNDP spent in North Korea had ended up in the hands of Pyongyang-linked entities abroad.
The United States says these organisations were suspected of money laundering and arms dealing.
US officials also said the agency had engaged in sloppy accounting, given cash to North Korean bodies without proper documentation and hired staff handpicked by the government.
