One of the key subjects that still needs to be addressed when it comes to North Korea
is medical assistance.
According to a foundation that works closely with the North, tuberculosis is a more serious
issue in the country than malnutrition.
Park Hee-jun reports.
One thing North Korea needs desperately, but which has received too little attention,...
is medical assistance.
The Eugene Bell Foundation has been working with Pyongyang since the 1990s to fulfill
the humanitarian needs of the North Korean people.
The foundation aims to eradicate tuberculosis, which has become resistant to drugs,... a
dire issue that requires international attention.
"Tuberculosis is North Korea's number 1, 2, 3 biggest health challenge.
I think it far outstrips any other disease, and arguably even concerns for malnutrition,
because it's an air borne infection.
And it can go dormant and become active decades after someone actually contracts it."
An estimated 8-thousand North Koreans contract multi-drug resistant TB every year.
The foundation has been treating about 15 percent of them, and the Global Fund 5 percent
-- which leaves some 80 percent unaccounted for.
But at present, there's not much that can be done.
Global organizations have had to pull out of North Korea amid tensions on the Korean
Peninsula and the enforcement of international sanctions.
"The latest sanctions, for instance, prohibits metal, and a lot of states have interpreted
that as anything that contains metal.
So the latest sanctions have thrown the whole series of normal regular humanitarian related
items in to question.
And some organizations are just not willing to take that risk."
If tuberculosis isn't treated, it will only spread.
Regardless of the obstacles that now exist, Dr. Linton believes that humanitarian problems
like TB should not be sidelined by politics.
"If they have a serious, life-threatening humanitarian issue that you can deal with
in a transparent manner,... making your treatment of that particular problem, subject of their
political consideration on their part, I think, is out of line.
So there should be a dual track system, where basic needs are met regardless of political
or military tension."
And according to Dr. Linton,... North Koreans are very determined to go ahead.
He says humanitarian assistance is likely to bring great benefits to them,... much more
than the easing or lifting of economic sanctions.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.


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