South Korea on Tuesday permitted a private aid group to contact North Korea for their plan to provide humanitarian assistance despite North Korea's new missile test, which it said was an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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People watch a live TV report at Seoul Station on July 4, 2017, showing North Korea`s special announcement that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. (Yonhap) |
Sources said the Ministry of Unification gave the approval earlier in the day in line with the government's stance to retain private-sector exchanges between the two Koreas.
"(The government) will sternly respond to North Korean missile launches, but will also continue its stance on private-level exchanges," a high-level government official told Yonhap News Agency.
It marks Seoul's 50th approval, since the Moon Jae-in administration's launch, of private groups' request for contact with North Korea to proceed with their aid projects or other exchange programs.
The Moon administration has said it will be flexible in allowing private-level exchanges between the two Koreas although it will sternly react to North Korea's military provocations. (Yonhap)
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