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S. Korea offers North small-scale corn aid
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Monday offered the North 10,000 tons of corn and other small-scale humanitarian aid, responding to a rare official request for assistance from Pyongyang. | | Data picture |
South Korea's Red Cross sent a fax message to its North Korean counterpart, stating that it will send 10,000 tons of corn, 20 tons of milk powder and medicine "for infants and children and pregnant women and other vulnerable people on humanitarian and compatriotic grounds," according to a press release.
The aid, if accepted by the North, would be the first of its kind since South Korea's Lee Myung-bak government came to power early last year, conditioning state-level assistance on Pyongyang's denuclearization.
On Oct. 16, North Korea requested humanitarian aid from the South during Red Cross talks on cross-border family reunions. It was the North's first official request for assistance from the conservative Lee government.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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