South Korea will help fund a UN census program on North Korea by donating $1.3 million to the project, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae announced at a meeting of the South and North Exchange and Cooperation Council on January 30.

The money will go the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), where it will be used to update a population census on North Korea.

“Regarding the population census, it was conducted in 2008 by UNFPA, and the ministry will fund it this year” a spokesperson from the MoU told NK News.

In 2008 the South Korean government provided more than $2