Thousands of lorries delivered rice to the hungry North starting on January 9, said Do Hee-Yoon of the Seoul-based Citizens’ Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees.
On Monday a Japanese newspaper said Chinese leaders had agreed on the aid at a meeting on December 20, the day after North Korea announced the death of its longtime leader Kim Jong-Il.
The deliveries lasted about 10 days before the Lunar New Year holiday on January 23, Do told AFP.
As evidence, he presented pictures taken near the customs office in the northeastern town of Tumen on the Chinese side of the border on January 12.
On Monday China’s foreign ministry urged the international community to give its impoverished neighbour more humanitarian aid.
It did not comment on a report by Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, that China had decided to donate 500,000 tonnes of food and 250,000 tonnes of crude oil.
The paper said senior Chinese officials made the decision at a meeting chaired by President Hu Jintao, in a gesture of support for the new regime headed by Kim’s youngest son Jong-Un.