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Floods and landslides wrack North Korea |
2006-07-21 |
More than 100 people are dead or missing in North Korea due to floods and landslides, an aid group operating in the communist nation said Wednesday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said heavy rains last week and this week had caused flash floods that totally or partially destroyed 11,524 houses, leaving more than 9,000 families homeless. The damage has cut off telephone connections, making collecting reliable information difficult, it said. “A lot of people have been displaced, they are trying to find out who is actually missing,” Jaap Timmer, head of the International Red Cross in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, told The Associated Press by telephone. South Korea has also suffered from the heavy rains, which have led to at least 25 deaths as of Wednesday, according to the South's Yonhap news agency. The North's official media has reported on the weather affecting the country, but has not mentioned any damage or casualties. The federation said the heavy weather could also affect North Korea's food supply — critical to the country that suffered famine in the 1990s believed to have killed as many as 2 million people. “Extensive areas of arable fields have been inundated, wiping out much of the anticipated harvest,” the federation said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#11 Mother Nature stifles NorK juche. |
Posted by: ed 2006-07-21 16:16 |
#10 No such luck these criminals would all perish. |
Posted by: SamAdamsky 2006-07-21 13:57 |
#9 Anyone care to place bets on how long it will take the NorKors to threaten a couple of missile launches in a attempt to get food aid? Not that it actually worked in the past, but does a great job of getting some free press and jack up peoples blood pressure. |
Posted by: delphi2005 2006-07-21 13:53 |
#8 Note to Halliburton: warm up the earthquake generator. |
Posted by: mojo 2006-07-21 11:09 |
#7 Haliburton: BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN DIVISION!! |
Posted by: ARMYGUY 2006-07-21 09:53 |
#6 Global Wetting! |
Posted by: Al Gore 2006-07-21 09:11 |
#5 I blame Bush! |
Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-21 08:46 |
#4 dampness can do bad things to rocket fuel |
Posted by: mhw 2006-07-21 08:36 |
#3 It's the wrath of God, so it's OK to nuke them. |
Posted by: gorb 2006-07-21 03:29 |
#2 Wanna launch another missile? Attack the sea of Japan? Rockets and the boys who hold them. I tell ya. |
Posted by: newc 2006-07-21 03:22 |
#1 Har-de-har. Couldn't happen in a better place. I'm sure Hu will send you a couple of trains of relief aid. Or did you really stael those trains ? |
Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-07-21 02:15 |