The South Korean government gave a green light to shipments of humanitarian aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) despite its decision to limit goods to and from its northern neighbor, Unification Ministry said Friday. The government allowed delivery of soybean milk and baking materials to Onsung County, North Hamgyong Province, and Sariwon City, North Hwanghae, to help support infants and the disabled there, ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters. MANILA -- Leaders of the Muslim separatist group are hopeful that peace negotiations under the Aquino administration will prosper. 'As far as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is concerned, we remain hopeful that President Benigno Aquino will fulfil his promise of addressing the root cause of Mindanao problem and solving it with a comprehensive peace agreement,' MILF vice chairman for political affairs Ghadzali Jaafar said in a statement on Friday. Aquino said in his inaugural address that his government will be sincere in dealing with all the peoples of Mindanao. MANILA -- Philippine separatist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has temporarily 'deactivated' its peace panel as it awaits its counterpart under the Aquino administration, its spokesman said on Friday. MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim made the decision on Thursday in one of the group's special meetings in Southern Philippines, saying that they will wait for President Benigno Aquino to complete his peace panel members and re-start the negotiation, Muhammad Ameen, Murad's head of secretariat, said. Its leaders on Friday nonetheless had expressed optimism that peace negotiations under the Aquino administration will prosper, especially after the president made public of his plan to be ' sincere in dealing with all peoples of Mindanao' and its ' committed to a peaceful and just settlement of conflict, inclusive of the interests of all -- may they be Lumads, Bangsamoro or Christian.' BANGKOK -- Five Thai paramilitary troopers were killed on Thursday evening when suspected insurgents detonated a roadside bomb to ambush them in Thailand's deep south,the Nation daily oneline reported on Friday. The attack took place at 6:50 p.m. on a road in Bomi village in Rusoh sub- district of Rusoh district in a southernmost province of Narathiwat. The suspected insurgents detonated the bomb when the patrol unit from the 46th Paramilitary Development for Peace Command arrived at the scene on their pick-up truck, police said. ---- KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Several armed militants loyal to Taliban outfit raided a U.S. compound in Kunduz city the capital of Kunduz province in north Afghanistan Friday morning. The attack triggered gun battle which lasted for several hours during which at least four persons including one Afghan police and three foreigners had been killed. Locals said that suicide bombers entered a base of NATO-led troops early morning and one of them blew himself up and others opened fire inside the compound. However, an official in Kunduz city the capital of Kunduz province said that suicide bombers entered a guest house of U.S. troops at 03:00 a.m. local time and started fighting. 