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Pyongyang calls Seoul's offer of flood aid an insult
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September 14, 2012, Friday
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NORTH Korea has criticized South Korea's offer to send aid for flood victims, calling the amount and types of the goods an insult.
After Pyongyang asked what aid items Seoul could send, South Korea on Tuesday proposed providing 10,000 tons of flour, 3 million packages of ramen noodles and medical supplies. South Korea's Unification Ministry said on Wednesday that North Korea had rejected its offer, a decision it said was "very regrettable."
North Korea's Red Cross Society didn't say exactly what South Korea offered to send, but it characterized it as a "negligible quantity of goods."
South Korea "seriously insulted us," an unidentified spokesman for the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society said in remarks carried by the Korean Central News Agency yesterday.
"This goes to clearly prove that the South Korean puppet group's proposal to offer aid is nothing but a gesture to gain gratitude and save its face under the public pressure," he said.
Since June, floods in North Korea have killed more than 170 people, submerged vast swaths of farmland and destroyed thousands of homes. A recent typhoon also killed 48 people and left about 21,000 others homeless, state media said.
After Pyongyang asked what aid items Seoul could send, South Korea on Tuesday proposed providing 10,000 tons of flour, 3 million packages of ramen noodles and medical supplies. South Korea's Unification Ministry said on Wednesday that North Korea had rejected its offer, a decision it said was "very regrettable."
North Korea's Red Cross Society didn't say exactly what South Korea offered to send, but it characterized it as a "negligible quantity of goods."
South Korea "seriously insulted us," an unidentified spokesman for the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society said in remarks carried by the Korean Central News Agency yesterday.
"This goes to clearly prove that the South Korean puppet group's proposal to offer aid is nothing but a gesture to gain gratitude and save its face under the public pressure," he said.
Since June, floods in North Korea have killed more than 170 people, submerged vast swaths of farmland and destroyed thousands of homes. A recent typhoon also killed 48 people and left about 21,000 others homeless, state media said.
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