A report by a Senate subcommittee says North Korea was able to channel money to its overseas posts through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The report said the U.N. agency suffered from management deficiencies, making it vulnerable to manipulation. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, agency appeared at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Tashkent, Uzbekistan -- Due to the large scale of reforms carried out on a gradual basis in almost all the sectors of Uzbekistan's national economy for the years of Independence a substantial scale of renovations and changes have been introduced to a range of documents stipulating all the legal grounds concerning those areas.

The United Nations is cooperating with a U.S. probe into charges that North Korea's government misspent millions of dollars in aid money intended for its impoverished people. But as VOA's correspondent Peter Heinlein reports, U.N. aid officials are disputing some of the U.S. figures.