US relief agency to give aid worth $1m to North Korea

A U.S. private relief agency plans to provide aid worth US$1 million to North Korea this year to help support North Korean children and other vulnerable people, a news report said Thursday. World Vision Inc. also plans to provide clean water to more than 8,000 North Koreans in provincial areas while providing nutritional assistance to children under the age of six, according to the report by the Washington-based Radio Free Asia. The Christian organization plans to expand its humanitarian project in other rural areas, the report said. The North has relied on international handouts since the late 1990s when it suffered a massive famine that was estimated to have killed 2 million people.