The U.S. Bush administration plans to disclose its food aid program soon toward North Korea, a new turn in U.S. policy which has so far maintained hardline policy against the Stalinist country.

The U.S. aid is a part of The World Food Program and the volume of the food aid will be around 100,000 tons, almost equal to the amount it provided last year.

The U.S. government is reported to have shifted its policy on the food aid program to North Korea based on humanitarian grounds.

Meanwhile, North Korean authorities state that it lacks over one million tons of food this year and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA) has requested world nations to join in its aid program toward North Korea.