It has emerged that China provided rice and fertilizer to North Korea last year.br That's amid UN Security Council sanctions that prohibit any large-scale economic assistance to the regime.br According to data from China's customs office,... Beijing provided one-thousand tons of rice to the North,... worth about one million U.S. dollars,... between May and October 2018.br The data also shows China sent 162-thousand tons of fertilizer,... worth more than 55 million dollars.br The shipments of apparently free assistance came shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to China in March last year when he held his first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.