South Korean Unification Ministry said Thursday that the government will resume humanitarian aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) next week.

"We will start to ship blankets to the North (DPRK) via the Incheon-Nampo route from March 28. Rice, trucks, cement and iron bars will be delivered between April and May," said Vice Unification Minister Shin On-sang at a news briefing.

The shipment will consist of 10,500 tons of rice, 70,415 tons of cement, 50 eight-ton trucks, 60,000 blankets and 1,800 tons of iron bars, said South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

South Korea has suspended humanitarian assistance to DPRK since Pyongyang conducted missile tests in July last year.

Source: Xinhua