Press Release: North Korea: Commission allocates EUR6.2 million in humanitarian aid

The European Commission adopted a €6.2 million humanitarian aid plan to support the water and sanitation sector in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Funds, allocated by the Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, ECHO, under the supervision of Commissioner Poul Nielson, were planned to provide urgently needed material to repair rural and urban water supply systems as well as for the sanitation provision. The programme also put a strong emphasis on the needs of children. The projects would be implemented by international agencies and European NGOs operating in the country and would be supervised by the ECHO support office in Pyongyang.