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South Korea will announce plans for food aid shipment to North soon: minister

DPRK still has a "firm commitment" to implement inter-Korean declarations, Kim Yeon-chul says

South Korea will “in the near future” lay out detailed plans for sending food aid to North Korea, unification minister Kim Yeon-chul said on Wednesday.

The ROK Ministry of Unification (MOU) will make an announcement after “comprehensively reviewing” the issue, Kim told press following a visit to the joint inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong — his first to the site since taking up the job in April.

Kim’s comments come a day after U.S. President Donald Trump was reported to have given South Korean President Moon Jae-in an informal green light to send humanitarian food aid to the North.

Speaking over the