Organizations working to promote human rights in North Korea are set to receive at least $4 million from the State Department over the coming year, according to a new spending bill signed by President Donald Trump late last week.

The DPRK-focused earmark makes up just one small part of the massive appropriations package passed by Congress to fund the federal government for the next nine months — and it is not the first time this type of line item has appeared in the federal budget.

But it comes this year at a moment of high tension between Washington and Pyongyang:

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