YonhapBy Jung Da-minNorth Korea has set up an international fund to fight tuberculosis and malaria.

He said hes helped about 30 other South Koreans correspond with their relatives in North Korea or send them aid parcels.and while hes desperate to see his siblings in the North before dying.

Japan and elsewhere to try to find out whether their relatives in North Korea are still alive and to arrange exchanges of letters.Shim said he spent three days with his brother in Yanji.For three decades Kim has been sending his North Korean sister letters and aid.

who once ran a fisheries export business in Japan.Even if separated families are reconnected.

speaks in front of letters sent from his North Korean sister during an interview at his office in Seoul.

they scan and email them to Kim.We call it gray hunger when fire reduces all the vegetation to ashes and there are no natural food sources left in the area for animals that survive the flames.

but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them.Climate conditions have only made things worse.

as raging wildfires reduce vast expanses to scorched earth.Experts say even when animals survive the flames.