{"id":99042,"date":"2017-09-25T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=99042"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:28:51","slug":"south-korea-unexpectedly-approves-aid-to-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/09\/south-korea-unexpectedly-approves-aid-to-north\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Unexpectedly Approves Aid to North"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Sanctions Hit Civilians, South Korea to Send Food, Medicine to North Korea<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In this June 29, 2007 file photo, South Korean workers load packs of rice for North Korea into a Vietnamese ship at Gunsan port in Gunsan, South Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? The Korean reads ” Rice and Republic of Korea.” (AP Photo\/ Lee Jin-man, File )<\/p><\/div>\n

21 Sep 2017 – <\/em>Mounting UN-imposed sanctions on North Korea are endangering local children and forcing cuts in both health and education.<\/p>\n

In a move no one expected, and which puts them squarely at odds with the US, South Korea today announced the provision of a new $8 million aid package for neighboring North Korea<\/a>. The provision of humanitarian aid is directly in contrast with US calls for \u201cmore pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry says that there is no risk of the aid being diverted to military use, and will not include any cash payments. Rather, the aid is to wholly be in the form of food and medicine for children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n

This is particularly timely, as North Korean Ambassador Han Tae Song was complaining to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Wednesday that the mounting UN-imposed sanctions are endangering local children<\/a>, and forcing cuts in both health and education for them.<\/p>\n

That UN sanctions are predominantly hitting children is hardly a shock, as it\u2019s generally the case with major sanctions against any country. That South Korea is mitigating the worst of this harm risks fueling leading to a US backlash, as the US and South Korea have long been on different pages on North Korea, as to whether to continue escalating tensions or try diplomacy.<\/p>\n

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More: New US Sanctions Target North Korea’s Trading Partners, Banks<\/a> – September 21st, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

Jason Ditz is news editor of<\/em> Antiwar.com.<\/p>\n

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