South Korea’s Ministry of Unification (MoU) on Tuesday approved humanitarian aid to North Korea for the first time this year, a spokesperson announced on Wednesday.

The MoU said it would allow the nonprofit Eugene Bell Foundation to ship multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) medication to the DPRK.

“We comprehensively considered the facts including ‘urgency of MDR-TB treatment,’ ‘necessity for continuity,’ and ‘no possibility of infection apart from tuberculosis [TB] patients,’ and came to a conclusion,” Jeong Joon-hee, an MoU spokesperson, said at a regular news briefing.

The Unification Ministry said the government’s stance on humanitarian aid remained “unchanged.”

“Our basic position is