South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung has said the government should make more efforts to help the North fight poverty and hunger.He expressed his determination to encourage more private human rights organizations to send relief material to the impoverished Stalinist state.
He told reporters, "Without resolving the North's poverty and hunger, it is impossible to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula," adding "I regard the North's nuclear weapons program and their hunger as the two main reasons for constant security threats on the peninsula."
