Report: China offers aid to impoverished NKorea

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea's state media said Wednesday that China has offered Pyongyang aid, a deal that was likely reached at a recent meeting between reclusive leader Kim Jong Il and a senior Chinese official.
The Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch that the aid will be "an encouragement" to North Koreans in their efforts to build "a great, prosperous, powerful nation." It did not say what kind or how much aid China had offered.

I thought this was interesting given the rising tensions in the relationship between the US and North Korea.

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