josette sheeran is the first wfp chief to visit north korea in five years. during her three-day stay from tuesday through thursday, she met with the country's number two leader and senior officials of the agriculture ministry. sheeran inspected facilities such as a food processing plant run by the u.n. agency and an orphanage. she left pyongyang for beijing on thursday. >> i saw many children that already are losing the battle against malnutrition, and their bodies and minds are stunted. >> the u.n. agency launched a fresh one-year food assistance program in july for 2.5 million people in north korea, mainly women and children. sheeran expressed apprehension about the slow financial backing, saying only 19% of about $95 million needed has so far been donated by countries. a growing number of countries and non-governmental organizations are shying away from providing assistance to north korea. they cite a string of cases in which food sent to the country has been illegally diverted for military use instead of reaching those in need. >>> welcome back to "newsl

but it is little comfort to josette sheeran, executive director of the u.n. world food program.ilding haiti to solving the riddle of agriculture and sub-saharan africa, the organization sheeran leads which is the world's largest distributor of food aid to the poor is intimately involved with aiding the lives of the so-called fodam billi. this year the organization's goal is to reach more than 90 million people with food assistance in more than 70 countries. around 10,000 people work for the organization, most of them are remote areas who are directly serving the poor. it's a task that requires great logistic and diplomatic skills. a role for which our speaker is well prepared. josette sheeran became the 11th executive director of the united nations world food program in 2007. previously, she served as undersecretary for economic energy and agriculture affairs at the u.s. state department where she was responsible for economic issues including development, trade, agriculture, finance, and energy, telecommunications, and transportation. before joining ustr she was managing directo

welcome to the national press club, josette sheeran. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. it is indeed a great moment to feel like i'm coming home, back to my own roots here at the national press club, where i've spent many an hour exploring the ideas that have helped defined the world that we are in today. today we're going to talk about my optimism and why i believe we can end hunger, yes, in our lifetimes. i like to begin by taking a journey with you to the front lines of hunger. i will start with this. this is a cup from our school feeding program and is representative of the fact that will then talk about 925 million people who are hungry, what that means is about one and of every six people on earth wake up each morning and are not sure how to fill this cup with food. for the children we reached, often this is the only secure access to food they have in their lives. most of the people in that number are women and children. and still today, every six seconds a child will die if not being able to access enough food to stay alive. my own personal awakening on this issue

earlier this fall, josette sheeran gave remarks at the national press club here in washington on global view of -- food security and property. here is a look. >> today, we are going to talk about my optimism, and why i believe we can and hunker -- can end hunger in my lifetime. i want to take a journey with you to the front lines of hunger. this is a cup from our school program in rwanda. it is representative of the fact that when we talk about 925 million people going hungry, what that means about one out of every six people on earth wake up each morning and aren't sure how to fill this cup with food. for the children we reach, often this is the only secure access to food they have in their life. most of the people in that number, women and children, and still today, every six seconds, a child will die from not being able to access enough food to stay alive. my own personal awakening came in 1986. i was home with my first child, who was newborn. i was watching an image on television of a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out very weakly for food. she had no milk in her breasts.

one might suppose at least some of these questions, procedural and other wise rf and sheeran.ed by referring to the body of law that has grown up around the fifth amendment or the sixth amendment or other constitutional provisions. what we call justice jackson's reasoning in eisentrager, which i quoted earlier, she denied the constitutional protections extended beyond the united states to aliens who had -- never had a presence in this country and the law of the circuit is the same, these constitutional provisions do not extend to aliens who have no property or presence in the united states. the guantanamo cases raise many of three enormously important issues and i'm going to mention to more. late last spring a panel of the court overruled a district court decision extending the grid of habeas corpus to the prisoners being held at the bottom there force base in afghanistan. the united states by the way was occupying bob -- bagram and the court had to choose between eisentrager on the one hand and boumediene on the other. was the military police and the occupation of bagram more