A total of USD$111 million will be required to fund humanitarian assistance in North Korea next year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report on Tuesday.

In figures released as part of its Global Humanitarian Overview 2019, the OCHA estimated a total of 10.3 million North Koreans would be in need of aid in 2019 – a figure largely unchanged since last year.

The USD$111 million would be enough to provide assistance and relief activities for six million North Koreans, it continued.

And while the number of beneficiaries of humanitarian assistance is expected to be