Inter-Korea
Int'l Aid Group Sends Relief Aid to NK
Written: 2007-08-20 15:31:29 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
International aid agency World Vision has sent to North Korea two-thousand emergency relief packages including wheat flour and medicine worth 200-million won.
The relief aid was sent Monday afternoon aboard a ship that left Incheon for the North Korean city of Nampo, on their way to the aid agency's coperative vegetable farm on Duroo Island.
Meanwhile, North Korea is struggling to restore damaged facilities and provide relief to flood victims now that more than a week's worth of heavy rains have begun to recede.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that central government officials participated in repair work in Pyongyang on Sunday.
The North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station also said that the military is working to reconnect railroads for the resumption of railway service and that the people are repairing dikes, public buildings and roads.
It also reported that central government agencies convened contingency meetings to devise measures for regions hit hard by flooding, which the KCNA said was the worst in 40 years.
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