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The ministry in a statement urged North Korea’s Red Cross to promptly respond to its calls for discussions to determine the types and amounts of South Korean supplies and how to deliver them.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea is ready to provide North Korea with relief supplies for damage caused by recent heavy rainfall, South Korea's Red Cross said on Thursday, marking a rare outreach ...
It was founded as the Red Cross Society of North Korea on 18 October 1946 by the Soviet-backed occupational government. [4] It was admitted into the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on 11 May 1956. This admittance had a great symbolic importance, as the North Korean regime remained outside most ...
The Red Cross Society of China has already provided emergency cash assistance of $300,000 to the Pakistan Red Crescent Society. [104] [105] On 30 August, China announced an assistance grant of 100 million yuan (US$14.5 million). [106] [107] On 3 September, China announced another assistance package of 300 million yuan (US$43.5 million). [108]
The ongoing devastating floods in Pakistan will have a severe impact on an already vulnerable population, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In addition to all the other damage the floods caused, floodwater destroyed much of the health care infrastructure in the worst-affected areas, leaving inhabitants especially ...
North Korea will not seek outside help to recover from floods that devastated areas near the country’s border with China, leader Kim Jong Un said as he ordered officials to bring thousands of ...
On Thursday, South Korea's unification ministry handling inter-Korean affairs said it was ready to discuss flood relief with the North's Red Cross, a rare outreach under President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The North had also rejected South Korea’s offers for help while battling a COVID-19 outbreak in 2022. During his recent visit to Uiju, Kim repeated an accusation that South Korea exaggerated the North’s flood damages and casualties, which he decried as a “smear campaign” and a “grave provocation” against his government. Some South ...