The United States says it'll cancel its planned food aid deliveries to North Korea after the government in Pyongyang defied Security Council resolutions and went ahead with a rocket launch on Friday morning. From Washington, Steve Kingstone.

美国称，由于平壤政府藐视安理会决议，于周五早上发射一枚火箭，将取消原计划对朝鲜的粮食援助。Steve Kingstone在华盛顿报道。

A senior administration official told reporters it was impossible to see how the US could move forward with sending food aid in light of North Korea's rocket launch. The planned assistance had been part of a tentative agreement announced in February under which Pyongyang had pledged to halt uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities. A spokesman for the US State Department said that agreement was now suspended. Washington viewed the rocket launch as a thinly disguised test of long-range missile technology.

政府一名高级官员告诉记者，考虑到朝鲜已发射火箭，美国不可能实施粮食援助计划。这原本的援助计划，是用来试探平壤二月份宣布的一项协议，朝鲜在协议中承诺停止浓缩铀等其他核计划。美国国务院发言人称，这项协议目前已被搁置。华盛顿认为发射火箭一事，不过是在虚弱掩饰其远程导弹技术的测试。

The United Nations refugee agency says it's concerned at the growing number of people fleeing the fighting in northwest Pakistan between government troops and Islamist militants. The agency said about 10,000 new arrivals a day were being registered at a camp near Peshawar.