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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a former Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News Seoul approves two new deliveries of humanitarian aid to North KoreaSouth Korea has now greenlit 11 deliveries of food and health assistance this year, though Pyongyang has ignored offers
South Korea has approved two new proposed aid deliveries to North Korea, the unification ministry said Monday, without revealing the nature of the proposed assistance. The two new approvals bring the total number of aid deliveries to receive the green light from Seoul to 11 for this year. Four of the aid deliveries have been approved under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Of the requested deliveries, eight have been classified as food-related and three as related to public health deliveries. In September, the ministry approved a $346,000-shipment of “nutritional” goods. The MOU did not provide information on the value of © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |