UN sends food aid to Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) due to flooding

The World Food Programme (WFP) UN sends food aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), due to the torrential rains and floods affecting the country.   The first shipment will provide evacuees a ration of 400 grams of corn a day for two weeks, the bank said in a statement on its digital page. According to the report, a UN mission traveled to the Asian nation this week, visited the affected areas and found severe damage to fields of corn, soybeans and rice. Anju regions, and Chonnae Songchon are most affected, while tens of thousands of families need clean water, so they asked to send cargoes for liquid purification tablets. North Korean state media reported Saturday that the death toll from floods in late June and July reached 169. KCNA news agency said the number of missing rose to 400, while more than 212,000 people homeless . A, 400 schools, hospitals and factories plunged by the disaster, while over 65 thousand hectares of crops were destroyed, he said. The DPRK is going through the traditional time of summer typhoons, whose effects are compounded when registering large landslides. During the summer of last year, some 30 thousand people lost their homes after torrential downpours. Floods of 2007, one of the most tragic in living memory, leaving hundreds dead and missing, and serious economic losses .