Why did UNDP recently suspend operations in DPRK?
The UNDP Executive Board met in January to decide, among other things, on the shape of the shape of UNDPs future operations in DPRK. On 25 January 2007, the Executive Board established a set of conditions for continued UNDP operations in the country. Some of these conditions had deadlines of 1 March 2007. The DPRK authorities came back to UNDP on 1 March 2007 to say they could not agree to certain of the conditions. As the package of conditions had been approved by the entire UNDP Executive Board, of which DPRK is a member, UNDP was unwilling to reopen negotiations and, in view of the established deadline, announce the suspension of operations in DPRK the next day, 2 March 2007.