Radio Free Asia says that the amount of aid U.S. civilian humanitarian organizations sent to North Korea through June this year is almost as much as last year’s entire total.

Citing the U.S. Treasury Department’s report on international trade, the U.S.-based broadcaster said that U.S. goods worth one-point-eight million dollars were offered to North Korea between January and June this year.

In the first six months of last year, goods worth 280-thousand dollars were sent from the U.S. to the North, roughly a sixth of the amount offered in the first half of this year.

Moreover, U.S. goods worth one-point-nine million dollars were shipped to North Korea for all of 2010.

RFA said that the aid supplies were mainly sent by U.S. civilian aid groups such as Mercy Corps and Samaritan's Purse.