South Korea returns gift to North Korea with 200 tons of tangerines
200 tons of tangerines packed in 20,000 crates will be transported to North Korea by C-130 transport aircraft on multiple flights on November 11-12.
The South Korean presidential office said today (November 11) that the country will send 200 tons of tangerines to North Korea in return for leader Kim Jong-un's gift of 2 tons of precious mushrooms to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September.
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| C-130 transport plane carrying tangerines to North Korea. Photo: Yonhap News. |
According to a spokesman for the Presidential Office, a military transport plane carrying the first shipment of tangerines left Jeju Island for Pyongyang at 8 a.m. on November 11.
Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung and Presidential Secretary for Unification Policy Suh Ho jointly oversaw the first shipment.
South Korean officials said 200 tons of tangerines packed in 20,000 boxes will be transported to North Korea on multiple flights on November 11-12, on four C-130 transport planes.
Previously, on September 20, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent two tons of rare pine mushrooms to South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the occasion of attending the third inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang. The special gift was delivered to South Korea even before President Moon Jae-in returned from North Korea after a three-day visit./.
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