Seoul will establish a large-scale North Korea trust fund at the World Health Organization (WHO) this year to help the North’s underprivileged, including infants and pregnant women.

A government official said Monday that South Korea would ink a memorandum of understanding (MOU) soon, finishing off a year-long negotiation with the WHO.

The ten-million-dollar trust fund would be established through money from the inter-Korean cooperation fund, and would systematically support infants and pregnant women in the famine-stricken North.

This project is part of the government’s five-year plan to support the underprivileged in the three areas of nutritional improvement, disease control, and health promotion through various channels of civic groups, international organizations, and the government by 2010.

It targets two-point-three million children aged five-years or younger and nine-hundred-80-thousand pregnant women and nursing mothers in the North.