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South Korea offered aid worth 5 billion won ($4.7 million) to flood-hit North Korea today, its first such proposal since Pyongyang’s deadly island attack last November sent relations into deep freeze.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The North, which even in normal times struggles to feed its people, has reported dozens of casualties<\/strong>, thousands homeless and large areas of farmland flooded following a storm and torrential rain this summer.<\/p>\n

The South’s offer came amid signs of an easing of high cross-border tensions. Nuclear negotiators from the two sides held rare talks last month on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Bali.<\/p>\n

Seoul’s unification ministry said the offer of medicine and daily necessities was made through the South’s Red Cross.<\/strong> If the North accepted it, talks would be held on shipping arrangements across the tense border.<\/p>\n

Ministry officials said the new aid package would not include rice and cement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Floods are common in North Korea, mainly because of its lack of disaster-control infrastructure and severe deforestation of hillsides.<\/p>\n

Despite that incident, for which the North denied responsibility, the South in September 2010 promised a 10 billion won flood aid package.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it suspended shipments after the North killed four South Koreans in a bombardment of a border island last November.<\/p>\n

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