Tag: north korea flood

North Korea’s Kim slams ‘irresponsible’ premier over flood damage

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed his cabinet’s “irresponsible” handling of flooding, blaming them for recent storm damage in the isolated country, state media reported Tuesday. Tropical Storm Khanun made landfall earlier this month in the North, a country where natural disasters can be devastating due to weak infrastructure and widespread deforestation, which increases vulnerability to flooding. A damaged embankment and inadequate drainage system resulted in seawater flooding more than 560 hectares (about 1,400 […]

N. Korea flood death toll rises to 133 with 395 missing: UN

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – Severe flooding in a North Korean border region has killed at least 133 people with hundreds more missing, according to the UN, which said the scale of the disaster was “beyond anything experienced” by local officials. Some 107,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the area along the Tumen River, the world body said in a statement received Monday which cited Pyongyang government figures. The North’s official media has described the […]