North’s plea to result in fertilizer shipments

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North’s plea to result in fertilizer shipments

South Korea will send fertilizer to North Korea in late May, the unification minister told the National Assembly yesterday.
“North Korean delegates told us at the ministerial talks that their food crisis was extremely serious,” Jeong Se-hyun told the Unification Committee at the Assembly. He returned from that inter-Korean meeting Wednesday. “The North Koreans asked us to provide fertilizer and rice aid as soon as possible. We told them that our fertilizer would be given unconditionally.”
Seoul has spoken of providing 200,000 tons of fertilizer and 500,000 tons of rice. Mr. Jeong said the fertilizer aid would cost about 65 billion won ($54 million); shipments would begin late this month.
No decision has been made on rice aid, a Unification Ministry official said.
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