The United States has earmarked two-and-a-half million dollars of its budget for fiscal year 2011 to assist North Korea.

The State Department set the figure in the Economic Support Fund clause of the Obama administration’s budget plan that was submitted to Congress on Monday.

The budget level for Pyongyang aid was set for a situation in which the U.S. decides to provide humanitarian aid to the communist state.

The amount is one million dollars less than the three-and-a-half million dollars that was earmarked in the budget for fiscal year 2010.

Last year, in the process of deliberating on the 2010 budget plan, Congress cut 95 million dollars that was earmarked for the North to support nuclear disablement efforts after the North refused to scrap its nuclear program.