DPRK to get full aid by March, says envoy

All sides participating in the Six-Party Talks in Beijing yesterday reached consensus to ship all promised economic aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by the end of March, Republic of Korea envoy Kim Sook said.

DPRK was promised 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil or equivalent aid in total - about half of which has been delivered - after Pyongyang agreed to a disarmament-for-aid pact last year.

But the denuclearization process stalled amid a standoff with the US over nuclear verification in August.