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The recent heavy rains in northwestern North Korea flooded thousands of houses and a vast extent of farmland and left many residents homeless and living in makeshift tents, North Korea’s state ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has surveyed flood-hit areas on the country’s border with China in a luxury car, as he accused officials of negligence for allowing heavy rains to plunge the ...
Over 4,000 homes in North Korea's city of Sinuiju and Uiju County near the border with China have been flooded due to heavy rainfall, state media KCNA said on Wednesday. Around 3,000 hectares ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 5,000 people isolated by flooding in northwestern North Korea were rescued by airlift and other evacuation work after heavy summer rains caused a river on the Chinese border to swell, state media reported Monday.
The North had also rejected South Korea’s offers for help while battling a COVID-19 outbreak in 2022. During his recent visit to Uiju, Kim repeated an accusation that South Korea exaggerated the North’s flood damages and casualties, which he decried as a “smear campaign” and a “grave provocation” against his government. Some South ...
Heavy downpours continued to soak South and North Korea on Friday as tropical storm Khanun swept over the peninsula after pummelling Japan, putting Pyongyang on high alert for flood damage. The ...
1 August – South Korea reports that up to 1,500 people may have been killed by floods in North Korea, caused by the remnants of Typhoon Gaemi. [ 25 ] 4 August – Kim Jong-un denounces the information declared by South Korea regarding deaths related to flooding as part of a " smear campaign " [ 26 ]
The 2016 North Korean floods began in late-August 2016 as a consequence of Typhoon Lionrock, killing at least 525 people, destroying more than 35,000 homes, and leaving over 100,000 people homeless, mainly in the North Hamgyong Province.