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Japan mulling aid to North Korea through international channels TOKYO, Sunday (AFP) Japan is mulling sending aid to North Korea after a deadly railway blast despite a dispute over the state's nuclear arms program and its abduction of Japanese citizens, reports said Sunday. Tokyo may send tents, blankets and medical supplies through international agencies depending on the report of a foreign team probing the blast and the response of other countries, Japanese media said. "If the international commuity supports it, we will also have to consider humanitarian assistance," Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying Saturday by the Yomiuri Shimbun. Providing aid to the North is politically sensitive in Japan because of the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s to train spies in Japanese language and culture. International aid workers in North Korea on Sunday said they had not been given enough information by North Korea to mount a comprehensive relief operation following the rail explosion near the Chinese border. Thursday's blast in the northern town of Ryongchon killed 154 people and injured some 1,300, according to North Korean authorities. China and South Korea have announced about one million dollars worth of aid each to North Korea, while Russia is planning to send a plane with humanitarian supplies to help the impoverished state. |
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