South Korea announces a $6.3 million U.S. dollar humanitarian aid package to its impoverished northern neighbour.<br/> <br />A Unification Ministry spokesman on Monday said the money would go to the World Health Organization to help provide other essential health care for North Korean citizens.<br/> <br />The South's government also plans to approve another $2.14 million U.S dollars of humanitarian aid from South Korean civic groups.<br/> <br />The United Nations says almost a third of North Korean children under 5 suffer chronic malnutrition.<br/> <br />The world body has said it needs almost $100 million U.S. dollars to fund North Korean fund aid programmes for the rest of 2013.<br/> <br />Tensions between the two Koreas have eased after the two agreed to restart their troubled joint industrial park, raising hopes for stronger ties in the future.
