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Mon, January 25, 2021 | 17:29
Sweden to offer $2.9 mil. in medical aid to NK
스웨덴, 북에 294만 달러 의료지원
Posted : 2011-07-16 17:01
Updated : 2011-07-16 17:01
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Sweden is planning to send medical aid worth $2.94 million to North Korea, the Voice of America reported Saturday.

The supply of medical aid to the communist state will be made through European relief agencies such as Save the Children U.K., according to the report.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) said the medical aid to the North is part of its humanitarian assistance, the report said.

Sweden has made donations worth $7.36 million to the North so far this year, accounting for 16 percent of international relief aid in total, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

South Korea was a major donor to the North for years. But Seoul halted unconditional aid in 2008 and tightened its sanctions on the North last year in retaliation for the communist nation's two deadly attacks on the South that killed 50 South Koreans.

South Korea has since selectively approved humanitarian and medical aid to North Korea by private aid groups. (Yonhap)

스웨덴, 북에 294만 달러 의료지원
스웨덴 정부가 올해 유럽 구호단체들을 통해 294만 달러 어치의 대북 의료지원에 나설 계획이라고 미국의 소리 방송이 보도했습니다. 이 방송은 스웨덴 국제개발협력청 대변인의 말을 인용해 인도주의적 차원에서 북한을 지원할 방침이라며 영국 세이브 더 칠드런 등 유럽의 민간단체 등을 통해 지원이 이뤄질 것이라고 전했습니다. 북한의 의료시설을 지원해 오고 있는 미국 구호단체 '조선의 그리스도인 벗들'도 올 상반기 통조림·비타민 등 28만 달러 상당의 식량을 북한에 지원하는 등 대북 지원을 강화하고 있는 것으로 전해졌습니다. 이 단체는 올해 자신들이 지원하는 구호시설들이 대부분 식량난을 호소했으며 심각한 영양실조를 앓고 있는 영유아들도 목격했다면서 미국의 대북 식량지원을 촉구하기도 했습니다. (YTN)









 
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