North Korea says it is suffering worst drought in decades

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North Korea says it is suffering worst drought in decades.

The official Korean Central News Agency said an average of 54.4 millimeters of rain fell throughout the country in the first five months of this year. It said that is the lowest level since 1982, when North Korea received 51.2 millimeters of rain on average during the same period.

In February, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Song, issued an unusual appeal for urgent food assistance. In a high-stakes summit in Vietnam in February, President Donald Trump rejected North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's call for an easing of the sanctions in return for dismantling his main nuclear complex, a partial disarmament step.

 

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