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S. Korea Plans Shipment of Medical Equipment to NK Hospital Next Month

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The South Korean government plans to send medical equipment to Pyongyang by late November under a sanctions exemption granted by the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions committee on North Korea, a government report showed Wednesday. The government received approval from the UNSC 1718 Committee on May 22 for the plan to ship medical equipment to Kangdong County Hospital in Pyongyang, according to the report submitted by the unification ministr…

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Kim Yo-jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers' Party, strongly condemned the South Korean government's policy to provide medical equipment to North Korea, calling it a political provocation. North Korea regards this aid as an insult and claimed that the landmine explosion incident in the DMZ was a self-inflicted act. It reiterated its hardline stance that the hostile nature of inter-Korean relations will not change and that there is no re…

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Kim Ye Jung, the head of the CDC of the Korean Labour Party, stated that South Korea's intention to hand over medical equipment to the DPRK was insult and provocation. Kim Yee Jung, the leader's sister of the KK of the Korean Labour Party, condemned South Korea's plans to send medical equipment to Pyongyang as political provocation and insult to the State, handed over RIA News with reference to Korea's Central Telecommunications Agency. "This is…

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Kim Yo-jong, Director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, slandered the South Korean government's push for medical aid to the North, stating that "thugs are staging another clown show under the theme of goodwill," and demanded that "respect be shown" if inter-Korean relations are to improve. In a statement released via the Korean Central News Agency on the 8th, Director Kim [addressed] the Ministry of Unification's …

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The South Korean government plans to send medical equipment to Pyongyang by late November under a sanctions exemption granted by the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions committee on North Korea, a government report showed Wednesday. The government received approval from the UNSC 1718 Committee on May 22 for the plan to ship medical equipment to Kangdong County Hospital in Pyongyang, according to the report submitted by the unification ministr…

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Park Soo-yoon and Chae Yun-hwan = The government has told the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee (1718 Committee) that it will send medical equipment to North Korea by this coming November...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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Seoul ' s plans to send a $6.75 million shipment of medical equipment to Pyongyang provoked a strong reaction from the DPRK authorities, with Kim Yo-jung, the head of the Central Labour Party of Korea, and the country ' s leader ' s sister describing such intentions as a direct attack on sovereignty, open insult to the State and dangerous political provocation.

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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