Voice of America reports that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will provide 400-thousand U.S. dollars to North Korea to help curb the further spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
 
A senior FAO official told VOA that the UN agency will send quarantine workers to North Korea after finalizing its aid plan.
 
The quarantine team will teach North Koreans how to protect livestock from the infectious disease.
 
In mid-March, FAO dispatched a team of inspectors to North Korea to assess the damage from the recent outbreak.
 
The World Organization for Animal Health said that one-thousand-688 pigs have been infected with the disease in North Korea since January.