In June of 2019, after a report made by the United Nations stating that North Korea had experienced the worst harvests in over a decade along with severe food shortages that affected 40% of North Korea’s population. South Korea enacted a plan to provide USD 8 million worth of food aid to North Korea. The South Korean government’s aid to North Korea is widely viewed as having a political agenda of improving inter-Korean relations, despite the South’s government insistence on separating the aid from politics.