Global Fund, an international aid financing organization which in February last year prompted concern when it announced it was ending a multi-million dollar North Korea aid project, is considering a return to its work in the DPRK, a spokesperson for the group told NK News this week.

No timeframe for the return has been formally decided, they said, though NK News understands the project may be restarted as early as October.

“The Global Fund is exploring options for the possibility of launching a new grant for tuberculosis and malaria in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Seth Faison, head