ROME - A North Korean spy working at the World Food Programme has left the UN agency after being exposed by UN investigators, diplomatic sources say.

 Kim Su Gwang was an agent of Pyongyang's Reconnaissance General Bureau operating under cover of a position as an international civil servant in Rome, according to a draft copy of a UN Panel of Experts report first disclosed by NK news and subsequently reported in the Daily Telegraph.

 A WFP spokesman, Peter Smerdon, confirmed that Kim Su Gwang no longer works for the Rome-based agency because of activities incompatible with his status. 

 Su Gwang's father Kim Yong Nam was also a spy working at UNESCO in Paris, according to the sources.

 Joshua Stanton, author of the One Free Korea blog, said "the presence of North Korean spies inside the World Food Programme suggests that Pyongyang sought to manipulate aid programmes while millions of North Koreans went hungry".

 "The U.N. should appoint a Special Investigator, as it did for the Oil-for-Food programme, to tell donor governments whether Pyongyang succeeded