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Workers recover cement blocks from flood-damaged areas in Onsong, North Korea, Sept. 16, 2016
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| Workers recover cement blocks from flood-damaged areas in Onsong, North Korea, Sept. 16, 2016.
The current assistance comes in the aftermath of Typhoon Lionrock, which hit North Korea in August with heavy rain that resulted in flooding. At the time, the government reported hundreds were dead and missing, and said thousands had lost their homes. International aid organizations responded immediately. Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry awarded $1 million for North Korea to UNICEF, a U.N. agency, the day before President Donald Trump took office last week. The State Department confirmed the assistance in an email to VOA and said the funding was destined only for humanitarian assistance. However, a spokesman added that U.S. officials are “currently reviewing last-minute spending approved by the previous administration.” News of U.S. assistance to North Korea came as a surprise to some officials in Washington and Seoul, since both countries have been increasing pressure on Pyongyang since the communist country conducted multiple nuclear tests last year. According to a report by Congressional Research Service, the United States provided the North over $1.3 billion in assistance, mostly food aid and energy assistance, between 1995 and 2008. Since early 2009, the U.S. has withheld all types of humanitarian aid to North Korea, while denying any connection between its political relations with the regime and humanitarian assistance. In February 2012, Washington struck a deal with Pyongyang, known as the "Leap Day" agreement, in which the U.S. agreed to resume large-scale food assistance on the condition that the North promise to refrain from further testing nuclear weapons. The agreement was scrapped less than three weeks later, after the North announced a plan to launch a long-range rocket. [Source: VOA | Baik Sung-won | January 25, 2017 ++] ***************************** NATO Defense Spending ► Who Pays What 
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