North fumes over food aid, again

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North fumes over food aid, again
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May 27,2019

Pyongyang’s state media on Sunday again slammed Seoul’s plan to send humanitarian aid to the North, claiming that the food issue was “trivial and secondary” when compared to inter-Korean economic cooperation.

In a strongly worded editorial, the Tongil Sinbo, one of the North’s official outlets covering South Korean issues, said the South was trying to trick the public into thinking it was doing its best to fulfill inter-Korean agreements by putting humanitarian aid at the forefront while neglecting “fundamental issues” related to economic cooperation.

“Does [the South] think that it can solve things by focusing on the secondary and trivial matters of humanitarian aid and non-political exchanges?” the piece read. “It must begin to act to faithfully implement the fundamental issues listed in the inter-Korean declaration.”

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