South Korean group delivers food aid to North Korea

The Korean Sharing Movement, a South Korean relief group, "crossed into North Korea Tuesday with 12 trucks full of flour, marking the first food aid of its kind since a North Korean attack last year," VOA's "Breaking News" blog reports. The group delivered 300 tons of flour to the border city of Paju. It will feed 22,000 children, according to the Reverend In Myung-jin, who leads the group (7/26).

"North Korea's food shortage has reached a crisis point this year, aid workers say, largely because of shocks to the agricultural sector, including torrential rains and the coldest winter in 60 years," the Associated Press writes in a story examining North Korea's severe food shortages (Lee, 7/25).