A U.S. humanitarian organization has set a landmark by chartering a direct flight to airlift aid for North Korean flood victims. Samaritan¡¯s Purse president Franklin Graham said on the organization¡¯s homepage Sunday, ¡°We've been told that this airlift is the first direct flight from the U.S. to North Korea since the Korean War.¡± The aid organization sent goods to the North on a chartered Boeing 747, which took off in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday and landed in Pyongyang on Friday. Worth US$8 million, they include antibiotics, drugs and plastic housing materials.
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U.S. humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse has set a landmark by chartering a Boeing 747 solely to airlift aid for North Korean flood victims. A picture of a 747 Boeing jet /Yonhap
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U.S. government subsidies of $50,000 were also spent on the aid to North Korea. Workers who will build temporary shelters and one doctor also went to the North on the plane. The Rev. Billy Graham, the aid organization leader¡¯s father, visited North Korea and met with the late North Korean founder Kim Il-sung in 1992 and 1994, and his wife Ruth attended a high school in Pyongyang in the 1930s. The North¡¯s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Friday said North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun ¡°met with U.S. guests who brought emergency aid and medical supplies¡± sent by the U.S. administration and Samaritan¡¯s Purse.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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