The United States says it will decide whether to provide food aid to North Korea after reviewing assessments made by U.S. special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Robert King and a food survey team.

State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Tuesday that Washington will compare the data gathered by King and his team to other data that it already has before reaching a decision.

Toner said that during his visit to Pyongyang last week, King met with Vice Ministers and the chief of U.S. affairs bureau of the North Korean Foreign Ministry.

He said King and the North Korean officials discussed, specifically related to the food assessment, monitoring terms necessary to assure that if the U.S. does provide humanitarian aid to the North that it would reach those for whom it’s intended.

Toner added that the field team of food assessment experts will remain in the North Korea through Thursday.

Meanwhile, Toner said the U.S. and the European Union are exchanging data on a planned visit to the North by an EU food assessment team. The team will visit the impoverished state from June sixth to 17th.