South Korea has decided to bring back from Dandong, China, the aid packages Seoul was planning to deliver to North Korea.

The move follows North Korea's artillery attack on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island that left two South Korean Marines and at least two civilians dead.

A Unification Ministry official in Seoul says South Korea has notified Chinese maritime customs that it will retrieve the 37-hundred tons of cement and 580 million won worth of medicine that were to be delivered to North Korean flood victims.

South Korean officials who were staying in China for the delivery have also been ordered to return home.