On this March 2020 file photograph captured from the web site of North Korea’s major newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, employees disinfect cargo containers on the nation’s western port of Nampo. (Rodong Sinmun) |
The United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) has offered North Korea with micronutrient remedies for 160,000 pregnant and lactating ladies, in keeping with its current report.
The objects are the primary provides from UNICEF delivered to the reclusive North after it reopened western sea routes in October following monthslong border controls towards the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After a number of months in quarantine at Nampo port, the primary batch of vitamin provides was launched from disinfection, together with micronutrient remedies ample to help 160,000 pregnant and lactating ladies,” the UN company’s Humanitarian State of affairs Report on East Asia and Pacific Area mentioned. The report coated UNICEF’s actions within the fourth quarter of final yr.
North Korea has been regularly opening its sea and land routes to usher in important supplies from overseas. (Yonhap)