Red Cross Offers Aid to N. Korea
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BEIJING — The South Korean Red Cross offered Friday to send starving North Koreans 40,000 tons of grain--twice the amount it has sent the North in two years of severe food shortages.
North Korean negotiators accepted the aid after two hours of talks, said Lee Byung Woong, secretary-general of the South Korean Red Cross.
He said negotiations here in the Chinese capital will resume today to resolve disputes on how the food will be sent and who will get it.
The North Korean delegation left without comment to its embassy compound in Beijing.
The 40,000 tons of grain, worth $8 million, would feed 500,000 people for half a year, according to the South Korean Red Cross.
Earlier talks in Beijing broke down when South Korea could not specify how much aid it would deliver and when.
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