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US hints at large food aid for North Korean flood victims

A State Department spokesman late Friday said that the US was ready to talk to North Kore about a "significant" food aid package for victims of the recent devastating floods.Widespread floods in August caused huge crop losses in a nation already unable to feed its people.
Washington "is prepared to engage with North Korean officials on arrangements for a significant food aid package, including appropriate monitoring procedures," deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in a statement.The US "is already providing immediate assistance in the form of badly needed antibiotics to prevent the spread of water-borne illness,"Casey said.The State Department on August 17 said that US is providing 100,000 dollars in humanitarian aid to North Korea.The aid is funneled through Mercy Corps and Samaritan's Purse, two US non governmental organizations operating in North Korea.Casey also said that the US "would like to express its sincere condolences to the people of North Korea who have suffered loss of life, homes and injury as a result of the recent severe flooding."Almost 300 people were dead or missing in the North Korean floods, according to a foreign aid agency quoting official figures in the nuclear-armed hardline communist nation.Official media in the reclusive state have painted a grim picture of inundated crops and homes, flooded factories and mines and washed-out roads. The US, together with China, Russia, Japan and South Korea,have promised to provide the North Koreans aid and security and diplomatic guarantees if it scraps its nuclear weapons program.
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