A seven-member delegation from the U.S. Congress visited North Korea this week but was not permitted to visit any of the food aid distribution centers or the countryside of the impoverished nation, delegation members said Aug. 12.
“We are obviously very disappointed that we could not see more of the real famine situation,” said Florida Rep. Porter Goss, the Republican chairman of the delegation, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
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