http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/04/30/200404300014.asp

...they declined the South's proposal to truck its relief supplies through the DMZ and send doctors and floating hospitals with emergency care for the injured.

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However, North Koreans annoyed many sympathetic southerners by turning down Seoul's offer of additional relief supplies, including medicine and daily necessities. They instead requested various construction materials worth 23.4 billion won, or $20 million, and even television sets. Though embarrassing, the South has decided to accept the request, although it obviously thinks it was not urgent.

All segments of South Korean society, including the political parties across different ideological lines, are opening their hearts to their suffering compatriots in the North. What the North Koreans have to remember at this tragic, but significant, moment is that they had better not leave a bad taste in too many mouths here, if the two Koreas are to move ahead toward genuine national harmony and peace.