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US, Japan decide to give more free food to DPRK
SEOUL. Feb 2: US and Japanese officials will visit Seoul over the next week amid reports that both countries have decided to give more free food to impoverished North Korea, reports AP.
South Korean officials said Friday that White House National Security Adviser Anthony Lake was expected to notify Seoul of a decision by Washington to donate 2 million dollars worth of food to North Korea through international aid organizations.
The United States gave 2250,000 worth of food late last year after the North south international aid for the damage from devastating floods.
Lake . arriving Saturday from a stopover in Japan, will talk first with his South Korean counterpart. Yoo Chong-Ha. He also will meet with President Kim Young-Sam and Deputy Prime Minister Kwon O-Kle before leaving Monday.
He will be followed next week by a delegation from Japan s ruling coalition parties.
Japan, which last year gave North Korea 500.000 tons of rice, much of its free, has indicated it would ship more rice, hoping for resumption of normalization talks, suspended since 1993.
Japan nas no formal relations with the North's com munlst government while maintaining close ties with pro-Western South Korea
South Korea, claiming the North is exaggerating its food crisis, has opposed further
aid from the United States and Japan. But it recently decided to allow non-governmental aid, reports said.
North Korea has said the heaviest floods in 100 years last summer affected nearly one-fourth of its 22 million people and caused property damage estimated at 15 billion dollars.
The North also said it needs immediate outside help to feed 500,000 people left homeless. International aid groups, predicting possible famine, back the call for aid.
South Korea maintain the North is intentionally starving its people by refusing to release huge stockpiles of food for its 1.2 million-member military, the world's fifth-largest.
In the first major interKorea aid last year. South Korea gave its rival 150.000 tons of free rice, hoping that would help improve ties.
Rut relations have since deteriorated, and the government has come under attack for being "duped and getting nothing in return.
South Korean officials say they still are willing to give more aid if the North makes a formal request, stops Its anti-Seoul propaganda and reopens dialogue.
North Korta has balked at the suggestions
South Korean media reports claim' Washington is pushing for food aid because its ongoing budget snafu is complicating efforts to find money for fuel ol) promised to North Korea under a 1994 deal.