South Korea’s unification ministry approved a private organization’s request to send around $180,000 worth of humanitarian aid to North Korea, the ministry announced Tuesday, marking the first such approval this year.
The announcement comes just a week after President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered the ministry not to spend “a single penny” on Pyongyang until it abandons its nuclear weapons program.
South Korea’s unification ministry approved a private organization’s request to send around $180,000 worth of humanitarian aid to North Korea, the ministry announced Tuesday, marking the first such approval this year.
The announcement comes just a week after President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered the ministry not to spend “a single penny” on Pyongyang until it abandons its nuclear weapons program.
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