Nhưng chính phủ Nam Hàn lại gửi thức ăn trẻ em vì không muốn xi măng và máy móc thay vì được dùng cho nạn nhân bão lụt thì được dùng vào mục đích quân sự. Việc từ chối nhận thức ăn và chăn, chiếu cho thấy Bắc Hàn xem ra không có ý định sử dụng phẩm vật cứu trợ để giúp dân mà chỉ muốn nhân dịp bị bão lụt để xin phẩm vật cứu trợ mà dùng vào mục đích khác hơn là giúp nạn nhân bão lụt.
Một tuần lễ trước đó, Liên Hiệp Quốc đã đưa ra lời kêu gọi giúp đỡ Bắc Hàn và nói rằng 1/3 số trẻ em tại Bắc Hàn đang bị thiếu dinh dưỡng.
Nam Hàn dự định trợ giúp Bắc Hàn là để xoa dịu tình hình căng thẳng giữa hai miền sau vụ tàu chiến Nam Hàn bị tàu ngầm Bắc Hàn vô cớ bắn chìm vào tháng ba năm 2010 và sau đó, Bắc Hàn pháo kích vào một hòn đảo của Nam Hàn .
4 October 2011 Last updated at 02:50 ET
Seoul had offered $4.7m (£3m) in flood relief after its communist neighbour was hit by storms in June and July.
It had planned to send bedding and baby food, rather than the cement and equipment requested by the North, to ensure the aid was not diverted to the military.
But it said no reply had been forthcoming from North Korea.
"Decisions have been made to end the effort since there was no response from the North since then," a spokeswoman for South Korea's Unification Ministry told AFP news agency.
It would have been the first cross-border shipment of government aid since two attacks last year which the South blamed on the North.
The attacks - the sinking in March 2010 of a South Korean warship with the loss of 46 lives and the shelling of a border island in November which killed four - have left ties between the two Koreas very tense.
But North Korea remains dependent on food aid to feed its people, after a famine in the late 1990s.
Last week, the UN warned that one third of North Korean children under the age of five were chronically malnourished.
South Korea drops plan to deliver aid to North
South Korea says it has dropped a plan to send aid to North Korea because it has received no response to its offer.
It had planned to send bedding and baby food, rather than the cement and equipment requested by the North, to ensure the aid was not diverted to the military.
But it said no reply had been forthcoming from North Korea.
"Decisions have been made to end the effort since there was no response from the North since then," a spokeswoman for South Korea's Unification Ministry told AFP news agency.
It would have been the first cross-border shipment of government aid since two attacks last year which the South blamed on the North.
The attacks - the sinking in March 2010 of a South Korean warship with the loss of 46 lives and the shelling of a border island in November which killed four - have left ties between the two Koreas very tense.
But North Korea remains dependent on food aid to feed its people, after a famine in the late 1990s.
Last week, the UN warned that one third of North Korean children under the age of five were chronically malnourished.
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