S.Korea needs N.Korea apology before major aid: official

[ErnstBlofeld]

Space Daily via AFB:

South Korea will consider resuming large-scale food aid to North Korea only if it clearly shows repentance for a deadly attack on a warship, a senior official said Monday.
Vice Unification Minister Um Jong-Sik urged Pyongyang to acknowledge its wrongdoing, apologise and punish those involved in the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

"I believe inter-Korean relations can improve only when such things are done," he told a local radio programme.

"Then, things like large-scale government food assistance can be carried out," he said, adding Seoul would assess the North's food situation and the overall state of relations before shipping food aid.