South Korea will resume economic and energy aid to North Korea in accordance with the December eighth resumption of the six-way nuclear talks.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young told reporters the South will send three-thousand tons of steel to the North as soon as administrative procedures for the delivery are completed.

A series of denuclearization deals require South Korea, the U.S., China and Russia to offer 450-thousand tons of heavy oil and 500-thousand tons of materials for the construction of energy-related facilities to North Korea in return for nuclear disablement.

The South has already shipped 50-thousand tons of heavy fuel oil and 66-thousand tons of materials to the North.

Seoul delayed its provision of steel, as the six-party nuclear talks hit a snag over North Korea’s nuclear verification.