Project ID: 89303

Chinese Government provides food aid to North Korea at the beginning of 2020

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

North Korea

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2020-01-01

Geography

Description

According to a report from Radio Free Asia, at the beginning of 2020, the Chinese government began sending large amounts of food aid to North Korea by train. The food aid included corn, wheat, and soybean oil, and possibly also rice. The shipments were to last several months, and were estimated to reach a total of hundreds of thousands of tons. In order to accommodate the transportation of the food aid, China planned to halt passage of general commercial cargo to North Korea. The aid was shipped from Dandong Station in China to Sopo Station in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Additional details

An Asahi Shimbun article mentions that China sent between 500,000 and 600,000 tons of food before June 2020- unconfirmed if this overlaps with the food shipments covered in the RFA article.

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of North Korea [Government Agency]