A South Korean civic group which offered to provide anti-malarial supplies to North Korea said Monday the North has rejected the proposal to protest the South's support of new U.N. sanctions against North Korea. All major cooperation programs between the rivals remain stalled amid an international standoff over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. It was the South Korean government's first approval of cross-border civilian exchanges since January 2016. The civic group subsequently exchanged emails with North Korea and proposed to deliver anti-malarial items such as insecticides, diagnostic kits and mosquito repellant to North Korea this week, according to group official Hong Sang-young. According to World Health Organization records, North Korea had 21,850 malaria cases in 2012 and 7,010 in 2015.

Source: ABC News June 05, 2017 08:34 UTC