China sent 1,000 tons of rice and 162,000 tons of fertilizer to N. Korea in 2018: Data
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It has emerged that China provided rice and fertilizer to North Korea last year.
That's amid UN Security Council sanctions that prohibit any large-scale economic assistance to the regime.
According to data from China's customs office,... Beijing provided one-thousand tons of rice to the North,... worth about one million U.S. dollars,... between May and October 2018.
The data also shows China sent 162-thousand tons of fertilizer,... worth more than 55 million dollars.
The shipments of apparently free assistance came shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to China in March last year when he held his first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
It has emerged that China provided rice and fertilizer to North Korea last year.
That's amid UN Security Council sanctions that prohibit any large-scale economic assistance to the regime.
According to data from China's customs office,... Beijing provided one-thousand tons of rice to the North,... worth about one million U.S. dollars,... between May and October 2018.
The data also shows China sent 162-thousand tons of fertilizer,... worth more than 55 million dollars.
The shipments of apparently free assistance came shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to China in March last year when he held his first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.