U.S. Envoy Doubts Cash Will Benefit Poor ; Says Humanitarian Projects Unlikely to See Macao Funds

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The U.S. special envoy on North Korean human rights said yesterday he had little hope that Pyongyang will use $25 million in a disputed Macao bank account to help its suffering people, while North Korea continued to resist a pledge to turn off its nuclear reactor.

Envoy Jay Lefkowitz said he was "not very confident at all" that the North would devote the money to humanitarian and relief projects, despite efforts from the Bush administration to extract such a pledge when it lifted an order effectively freezing the money in the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia (BDA).

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U.S. Envoy Doubts Cash Will Benefit Poor ; Says Humanitarian Projects Unlikely to See Macao Funds

"Given their record, we certainly don't expect any transparency from the North on how they would spend the money," Mr. Lefkowitz said after an address at the Heritage F...

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