The United Nations will provide $2 million in aid to North Korea as part of its humanitarian efforts, a news report said Saturday.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, part of the U.N. Secretariat responsible for humanitarian actions, plans to deliver the financial support to its peer organizations working in the reclusive regime, according to a new report by Radio Free Asia.
The aid will be provided through the Central Emergency Response Fund, which has offered a total of $6.5 million to Pyongyang since 2011. The annual sum given to the communist state has varied each year: $5 million in 2011, $7 million in 2012 and $2.1 million in 2013.
U.N. offices based in the North decide on the spending through negotiations with the head of United Nations Development Programme stationed there. Other U.N. affiliated organizations that provide financial aid to the North include the World Food Plan, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund.
The CERF plans to send $100 million to 12 countries around the world in this batch.
Syria will receive the highest amount of $30 million, followed by Lebanon with $18 million. North Korea will receive the least. (Yonhap)
