All posts tagged "humanitarian aid"

  • People work in corn fields, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in South Hwanghae, North Korea. North Korea may be facing a poor harvest and possible food shortages due to unusually light rainfall in some parts of the country so far this year. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    N. Korea receives same amount of aid compared to last year

    SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) — The growth of humanitarian aid sent to North Korea stayed almost flat in the first half from a year earlier, a U.N. agency said Wednesday, raising concerns about food shortages in the...

    • Posted July 1, 2015
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    S. Korea loosens restrictions for aid donors to N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea said Wednesday that it has eased donor eligibility requirements to facilitate private groups’ humanitarian aid to North Korea amid lingering inter-Korean tension. Seoul’s ministry on inter-Korean affairs unveiled the decision to open...

    • Posted April 22, 2015
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  • This Rodong Sinmun photo released on Feb. 11, 2015 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting the construction site of an orphanage in Wonsan on the east coast. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to increase humanitarian aid to N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will provide more humanitarian aid to North Korea to help ease rising inter-Korean tensions, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Friday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo said he will make efforts to encourage...

    • Posted April 17, 2015
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  • FILE - This picture taken on Thursday, April. 24, 2014 and provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), U.N relief workers with blue helmets and vests stand next of residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, right, who stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. On wednesday, April. 1, 2015 Islamic State militants infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital marking the deepest foray yet by the extremist group into Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s power, Syrian opposition activists and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File )
    S. Korea donates $10 million toward Syria’s humanitarian crisis

    SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea has decided to donate US$10 million to help millions of Syrians displaced by a prolonged civil war, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Seoul’s pledge came at a donors’ conference held...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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    N. Korea rejects S. Korea’s offer of powdered milk aid for infants

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea on Wednesday proposed sending 25 tons of powdered milk to North Korea in humanitarian aid, but the communist regime rejected the offer, Seoul’s Red Cross said. The Korea National Red Cross (KNRC)...

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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