대북지원 활동가들, 국제사회에 대북 금융채널 개설 촉구

Humanitarian aid activists are held a series of meetings to discuss ways to help out North Korea.
As a result of the event in Seoul, the participants demanded opening financial transaction channel with North Korea.
Kan Hyeong-woo has more on what the international conference produced.
Humanitarian aid activists said Friday that United Nations agencies, international organizations and nongovermental institutions should be allowed to open at least one channel for financial transactions with Pyeongyang.
After an international conference they attended in Seoul for the last two days, the activists released a joint statement at a press conference on Friday... demanding that stable remittances should be granted to help aid organizations operate in the North.
The U.S. Treasury Department has recently issued a warning against financial transactions with North Korea. Washington also has asked South Korean banks to comply with the sanctions on Pyeongyang.
According to the head of the Korean Sharing Movement, Kang Young-sik, whose organization helped put the Seoul conference together, Friday's joint statement is basically asking the United States to permit the opening of a financial transaction account for North Korea aid.
The activists also called for the UN and member countries to act so that aid can continue in the North, and so that supplies are delivered in time and aid workers can get in.
Meanwhile, they urged Pyeongyang to be transparent and accountable when it comes to receiving aid.
About 80 officials from local and foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations attended the conference,... which was co-hosted by the Korean Sharing Movement, Gyeonggi-do Province and the Korean office of Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News