SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea will grant $ 6.3 million to help North Korean children with illnesses and stunted growth, the government said Friday.
The Unification Ministry said the Council for the Promotion of Exchange and Cooperation between the South and North approved the spending of inter-state cooperation.
The money will be sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations, which will help distribute aid in the North.
"Assistance can help reduce disease and stunting of North Korean children who lack adequate public health conditions," said ministry spokeswoman, Park Soo-jin.
The latest move to provide aid is a result of that Seoul has made clear it will continue to provide humanitarian support to the disadvantaged in North Korea, such as children and pregnant women, regardless of political or military events that occur on the Korean peninsula.
Inter-Korean relations that improved with the resumption of the operation of the Kaesong industrial complex, earlier this month, have been frozen after Pyongyang abruptly postponed last week, the reunion of families separated by the Korean War, 1950 -53.
The last offer of help from Seoul comes after the country already approved sending humanitarian supplies by twelve South Korean charity group. The Administration Park Geun-hye and promised 6.04 million dollars for the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) to help people in the North.
