The South Korean government on Wednesday passed a bill approving $8 million in humanitarian aid to North Korea via UN agencies, the Ministry of Unification (MOU) announced.

The bill was reviewed and passed at the 305th meeting of the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Promotion Council held over the last few days, the MOU said, with the funds set to be drawn from the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund (IKCF) and sent to the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

The approval comes less than three weeks after the standing committee of Seoul’s presidential National Security Council (NSC) announcedit