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South Korea Gives Aid To North Korea For The First Time In Years
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by Yuliya Talmazan | October 26, 2009 at 04:19 pm
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For the first time in nearly two years, South Korea has given humanitarian aid to North Korea. South Korea says the move has nothing to do with the recent attempts at nuclear disarmament by North Korea. There are speculations that millions of people in North Korea are starving.
Commenting on the aid, a South Korean unification ministry official said Seoul's $3.5m package which includes corn and powdered milk will be "solely prepared by the Red Cross".
Chun Hae-sung said Monday's offer was purely humanitarian and there were no plans to resume large-scale food aid.
Last week a UN report estimated that nearly nine million people in North Korea were going hungry.
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at 08:49 on October 27th, 2009
North Korea needs South Korea now more then ever because U.N. sanctions are limiting imports due to their nuclear status. North Korea has been courting a relationship with the South for some time and has even taken the lead in re-unification of families that were separated since the war in 1953.
It will be interesting to see how the international community views these overtures by the North, and the South's willingness to increase the bonds with the North.