UN: North Korea seeks immediate food aid after floods

The United Nations says North Korea has requested actual aliment aid afterwards adverse floods aftermost month.

UN admiral in Pyongyang said the charge for aid was burning afterwards visiting flood-hit genitalia of the country to appraise damage.

North Korea accompaniment media said that at atomic 119 bodies died and tens of bags were larboard homeless.

Damage to basement and farmland has afflicted the country's already acute aliment curtailment problem.

The best abominably afflicted areas are Anju burghal and Songchon County in South Phyongan Province, and Chonnae County in Kangwon Province, said the UN.

Residents in these areas are in burning charge of aliment supplies, as able-bodied as apple-pie water, as wells accept been attenuated by carrion during the floods.

A UN agent in New York accepted that the North Korean government has asked the UN to absolution emergency aliment such as aliment and fuel.

Some all-embracing aid groups accept already amorphous acquisition aliment and donations. On Thursday, the Red Cross said it would admeasure added than $300,000 (£193,000) for flood victims.

Recent images from Anju taken by accompaniment account bureau KCNA showed houses underwater, abounding agronomical acreage and bodies apartment in the high belief of buildings.

Kim Kwang-dok, vice-chairman of the Anju Burghal People's Committee, told the Associated Press account bureau that the calamity was the affliction in the city's history.

The floods - which followed a astringent aridity beforehand this year - accept sparked beginning affair over North Korea's attempt to augment its people, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.

North Korea relies on aliment aid because it cannot abound abundant aliment to augment its people. Famine in the mid-1990s is believed to accept dead hundreds of bags of people.

A UN address appear aftermost ages estimated that two-thirds of North Korea's 24m citizenry ache from a abiding curtailment of food.