Voice of America says 21,000 tons of U.S. corn will arrive in North Korea around Saturday, January 3rd.

The corn is the sixth batch of a 500,000-ton shipment of U.S. food aid to the impoverished North.

Quoting an official at a nongovernmental organization, the broadcaster said five U.S. NGOs will distribute the corn in 25 counties in the northern area of the communist country.

The U.S. State Department said in a news briefing Monday that it will continue humanitarian food aid to North Korea.

The report also said the seventh shipment of U.S. food aid will arrive in the North Korean port of Nampo around January 19th.