Sydkorea genoptager sin praksis med at sende lægehjælp til Nordkorea. På den koreanske halvø ser situation således bedre ud end i fjor.
Da en nordkoreansk torpedo i marts 2010 sænkede det sydkoreanske krigsskib, Cheonan, vakte det harme i Seoul.
Sydkorea satte en stopklods for al lægelig bistand til sit naboland. Men nu står det til at ændre sig.
South Korea will resume sending medical aid to North Korea via the United Nations, officials say according to BBC online Tuesday.
The government in Seoul has authorised the World Health Organization (WHO) to release 6,94 milllion US dollar to equip North Korean hospitals, the South’s unification ministry said.
The money was frozen in 2010 after Seoul accused Pyongyang of sinking its warship with the loss of 46 lives.
But in recent months there have been signs that tension is easing.
Representatives from both sides have met to discuss resuming nuclear disarmament talks, and there have been a number of informal visits.
South Korea donated a total of 13,12 million dollar to the WHO for North Korean humanitarian aid in 2009.
But in the wake of the warship sinking – and North Korean shelling of a border island later that year – Seoul withheld permission for the money to be released.
A South Korean official quoted by Yonhap news agency said Seoul’s decision to release the funds had been made “taking into account its stance of maintaining its humanitarian aid for infants, children and other vulnerable people in the North”, BBC online reports.
