It should come as no surprise that North Korea, a nation from which refugees run away TO China, is now the proud recipient of foreign aid from one of the world’s largest per-capita foreign aid recipients. From the unlinkable NK News section of the Korea Institute for National Unification webpage:
Mongolia Provides Grant-in-aid to North Korea
In a demonstration of friendly relations with North Korea, Mongolian Prime Minister Nambariin Enkhbayar on November 20 agreed to provide a grant-in-aid to North Korea. The development came during the Mongolian prime minister’s two-day visit to Pyongyang starting November 19.
The (North) Korean Central News Agency said that day North Korean Premier Pak Pong-ju signed the agreement with his counterpart Nambariin Enkhbayar. But the KCNA failed to mention the kind of the grant-in-aid. Earlier, in 1998, Mongolia delivered 300 tons of canned meat to North Korea.
Despite the North’s withdrawal of its embassy in Ulaan Baator with no official explanation in August 1998, the two countries have stepped up bilateral cooperative relations in recent years.
In January 2003, Mongolian Foreign Minister Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun visited Pyongyang and held talks with his North Korean counterpart Paek Nam-sun.
Mongolia’s grant-in-aid followed one given by China. China informed the North of the Chinese government’s decision to provide a grant-in-aid to North Korea while its No. 2 man, Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, made a three-day visit to Pyongyang starting Oct. 29.
