The UN has approved the remainder of a series of November 2018 sanctions exemption requests for shipments of humanitarian aid to North Korea by the German organization Welthungerhilfe, the website of the UN committee in charge of sanctions on the DPRK reported.

Welthungerhilfe (translated as German Agro Action) will now be allowed to send to North Korea “equipment for the production and storage of seeds, the improvement of food supply, improving the nutrition situation, and humanitarian disaster prevention,” the approval letter said. 

The July 30-dated letter addressed to the German mission stated that the 1718 Sanctions Committee “decided to approve