The South Korean government may no longer be officially sending aid to North Korea but they have found a work around by authorizing these civic groups to do it instead:

South Korea approved additional humanitarian and medical aid to North Korea despite lingering political tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula, an official said Monday.

Five civic groups have been allowed to deliver 830 million won (US$769,000) worth of bread, soy milk, basic medical supplies and anti-malaria aid to the North, bringing the total amount of aid to the North this year to 2.28 billion won, Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said at a briefing.  [Yonhap News]

I really don’t have a problem with small amounts of medical aid trickling into North Korea such as anti-malaria medicine that would benefit South Korea by not having malaria spread across the DMZ. The food aid though I remain skeptical of because much of it is likely being siphoned off by the regime before it reaches the truly needy due to the lack of monitoring. This is still better than the United Nations program which continues to funnel hard currency into North Korea that is siphoned off by the regime.