South Korea has approved three new requests to send nutrition-related private humanitarian aid for North Korea this month, Seoul’s unification ministry said on Thursday.

The latest approvals mean the ministry has now greenlit a total of 11 such requests this year, though a ministry official told NK News that it is unlikely any approved aid items have made it to the DPRK amid the country’s continuing COVID-19 border restrictions and stalled inter-Korean relations.

“The humanitarian cooperation between the South and North must be continued regardless of the political or military situation” on the Korean Peninsula, another ministry official told reporters