U.N. likely to streamline guidelines on aid delivery into N. Korea

The U.N. sanctions committee on North Korea is considering new guidelines that would ease the process of delivering aid to North Korea and would likely be adopted Monday, according to a U.N. diplomat.The proposed "Guidelines for Obtaining Exemptions to Deliver Humanitarian Assistance" aim to help the North's population by streamlining requests for the delivery of humanitarian aid into the isolated country and by clarifying the process for doing so.While the U.N. Security Council has met Pyongyang's aggressive development of a nuclear program with increasingly harsh sanctions resolutions, in…READ FULL ARTICLE