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S.Korea offers one million dollars aid for NKorea blast victims SEOUL, April 24 (AFP) South Korea on Saturday offered medical supplies and food worth one million US dollars to North Korea to help victims of a deadly train blast, officials said. The decision was made at an emergency meeting of government ministers presided over by acting President Goh Kun. "I think we must provide emergency aid swiftly," Goh was quoted as telling the minsters by a spokesman of the acting president's office. "Their sufferings must be beyond our imagination because of shortages of hospitals and medical supplies amid economic difficulties," he said. The government also decided to donate 200,000 dollars in cash to the World Health Organization as Pyongyang accepted offers of aid from the international community. After days of silence, North Korea acknowledged Saturday that a train blast caused "very serious" damage at Ryongchon, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the Chinese border, on April 22. |
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