Floods have damaged tens of thousands of buildings in north-eastern North Korea after the worst downpour there for decades, state media said on Sunday, urging all soldiers and civilians to join a drive to help victims. The report on the official KCNA news agency gave no death toll or exact figure for damage. Sunday’s report, citing the central committee of the ruling Workers’ party, said “tens of thousands” of homes and public buildings had collapsed and railways, roads, power supplies, factories and farmland had been destroyed or submerged. Sanctions against North Korea have failed. End them now | Simon Jenkins Read morePeople in North Hamgyong province were suffering “great hardship”, it added.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 02:03 UTC