The United Nations says that North Korea has asked the U.N. Development Program to withdraw its two remaining staff members in Pyongyang. The two will leave the North Korean capital on May third.

U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Tuesday that at North Korea's request, the UNDP is pulling the two staff members and sending them to Beijing.

The agency suspended operations on March first after Pyongyang failed to meet conditions set by its board following U.S. allegations that U.N. aid money was being diverted to the government of Kim Jong-il.

In late March, UNDP announced that U.N. and U.S. authorities are investigating how 35-hundred dollars in suspected counterfeit 100 dollar bills ended up sitting in a safe in the UNDP North Korea office for 12 years.