feel sorry for the N.Koreans - climate change ruining crops

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http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=12815&cat=dis&lang=eng


Torrential rains have hit impoverished North Korea destroying farmland and other industries, the communist country's state media said on Thursday. Heavy downpours battered western and eastern coastal areas between Tuesday and Thursday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. "The deluge of rain has inflicted heavy damage to agriculture and other sectors of the national economy and people's living in the relevant areas," the news agency said. Koksan county in North Hwanghae province had 431 millimetres (17 inches) of rain during the week, it said, without saying if there were any casualties. Experts say decades of reckless deforestation have stripped North Korea of tree cover that provides natural protection from catastrophic flooding. Energy-starved residents have used every scrap of wood from the countryside to cook food or heat homes through the bitter winters, leaving the country vulnerable to flooding and landslides on a massive scale. Government officials have worsened the problem by encouraging residents to expand farmland into the hillsides in a bid to grow more food.)
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and they were hungry to start with

it will be another year until a new crop can be eaten, if they are lucky.