“We will knock on the door of the government until it opens,” Kwak Young-joo, a representative of Korea NGO Council for Cooperation with North Korea (KNCCK) told NK News on Friday.

The NGO Council, made up of 54 South Korean organizations, faced criticism from the South Korean government when it had announced it would be sending flood relief to North Korea.

“While the North was claiming to have suffered the worst cataclysm since (1945) liberation, consider the fact that Kim Jong Un was smiling at the satellite rocket enginetest site,” Jung Joon-hee, a Ministry of Unification (MoU) spokesperson said