Chinese Train Brings Seoul’s Food Aid

A Chinese train carried tons of powdered corn into hunger-stricken North Korea, where South Korean Red Cross officials handed the food over to authorities. The corn shipment was the first of 50,000 tons of food that Seoul pledged under an aid agreement with North Korea. South Korea plans to deliver all the food, enough to feed 600,000 North Koreans for six months, by the end of July. The United Nations estimates that without massive outside aid, 4.7 million North Koreans risk starvation this year. Three South Korean Red Cross officials were on the train when it crossed the Chinese-North Korean border.