Thousands of homes, farms hit by floods in N Korea

 

Photo: Collected

Photo: Collected

More than a thousand homes were damaged and some 5,000 people have been evacuated after flooding caused by heavy rains in North Korea, the country's state broadcaster reported, with swathes of farmland also inundated by the deluge. 

The TV report comes as the impoverished North in June admitted it was tackling a food crisis, sounding the alarm in a country with a moribund agricultural sector that has long struggled to feed itself. 

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