Kim Jong Un sends your supplies to deal with the flood

Manager North KoreanKim Jong Un It ordered Sunday to send relief supplies to parts of the country affected by the floods, from which about 5,000 people are to be evacuated. Pictures aired by KCTV, the state broadcaster on Saturday, showed homes flooded to roof level and bridges damaged by heavy rain. “Hundreds of hectares of farmland” in the southern province were submerged
Hamjiong to shoot And the channel reports that roads and houses were affected after the ditches were broken.

Bad weather comes after Kim Jong Un admitted in June that his country was facing a “tense food situation”. According to the state news agency KCNA, on Sunday he ordered the deployment of equipment and financial aid to assist the campaign in southern Hamjiang province. Officials in the province on Thursday discussed “urgent measures to quickly restore the lives of people in the most affected areas.”

Crops vulnerable to bad weather

Ri Yong Nam, North Korea’s vice president of meteorological services, told KCTV that more rain would cause more damage as the soil was already wet. “We expect heavy rain in many areas, mainly near the east coast, until August 10,” he continued. According to the United Nations Food Agency (FAO) estimates released in July, North Korea is at risk of facing a food shortage of 860,000 tons this year. The agency warned of a “tough lean period between August and October.”

The North Korean regime has long struggled to feed its people under international sanctions for its banned military programs and continues to suffer from food shortages. Pressure on the North Korean economy has increased, with regular border closures to combat the corona virus epidemic and a series of storms and floods in 2020. Aid from Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union.