Humanitarian aid to North Korea has not been helpful in achieving the broader goal of "peaceful unification,” South Korea's unification minister Kim Yung-ho said during a plenary session Tuesday.
His remarks come amid major organizational changes in his ministry, including the largest budget cuts in a decade, that refocus resources away from inter-Korean cooperation and dialogue and toward human rights issues.
Humanitarian aid to North Korea has not been helpful in achieving the broader goal of "peaceful unification,” South Korea's unification minister Kim Yung-ho said during a plenary session Tuesday.
His remarks come amid major organizational changes in his ministry, including the largest budget cuts in a decade, that refocus resources away from inter-Korean cooperation and dialogue and toward human rights issues.
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