MOSCOW READY TO AID NORTH KOREA.

Russia is prepared to airlift some $200,000 worth of foodstuffs and other humanitarian aid to North Korea, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. Moscow undertook similar operations on two occasions last year, and a Russian Interior Ministry official speculated early this year that Russia might also make fuel deliveries to North Korean should a "critical situation" develop there. (Itar-Tass, July 24)

CIS Presidents Will Attend Inauguration.