N. Korea: 'Hundreds' Dead After Heavy Rains

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_story_225204325.html ^ | Aug 13, 2007 5:02 pm US/Pacific

[BenLurkin]

Powerful storms in North Korea have left "hundreds" dead or missing and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, the country's state media reported Tuesday.

The official Korean Central News Agency said preliminary information revealed the massive casualties after the heavy rains that began last week, but gave no specific figures.

It also reported flooding of tens of thousands of acres of farmland in the impoverished country that suffers from regular food shortages.

"The heavy rain destroyed at least 800 public buildings, over 540 bridges, 70 sections of railroads and at least 1,100 vehicles, pumps and electric motors," KCNA said.

Hardest hit appeared to be Kangwon province, where KCNA said there were "huge casualties" and that homes for more than 20,000 families were partly or completely destroyed. The effects also reached to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.

"The material damage so far is estimated to be very big," KCNA said. "This unceasing heavy rain destroyed the nation's major railways, roads and bridges, suspended power supply and cut off the communications network."

[krb]

'Hundreds' Dead After Heavy Rains

Neighbor: It's what's for dinner

[Farmer Dean]

Oh great.Now they will want to extort twice as much stuff in the nuke negotiations.

[laweeks]

Oh, my God! What did Bush do now to cause this?

[BenLurkin]

Rove is gone.

Nobody knows how to control the weather machine in the WH basement.

[Larry Lucido]

over 540 bridges

And Bush had 6 years to do something about that, too!

[Frapster]

30,000 homes and only 100s dead?

[BenLurkin]

Something fishy about the whole thing.

[laweeks]

“Nobody knows how to control the weather machine in the WH basement.”

Who gets the weather machine now? Will Rove leave it behind? Hows about the Bridge Disaster Machine? And what about the Oil Price Gouging Machine?

[xcamel]

bet that one is reversed...

[SauronOfMordor]

30,000 homes and only 100s dead?

It doesn't take much to destroy some cardboard with a plastic tarp for a roof

[FormerACLUmember]

'Hundreds' Dead After Heavy Rains Neighbor: It's what's for dinner

Yeah, the informal North Korean meat markets will have plentiful supplies this week. Plus extra supplies of jerky for the next few months.

Socialism at its finest.

[FormerACLUmember]

Drowned North Korean: Its whats for dinner.

Tastes like chicken!

[agrace]

Wow.

I feel so much for the people of North Korea. Makes me thank God He somehow saw fit to put me here instead of someplace like that.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

540 bridges ?

[krb]

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!

[SevenofNine]

hey Tiger hear anything???

[SevenofNine]

hey Tiger hear anything???

[shield]

So sad for the NK people. This country does not have the ability to take care of it’s own poeple. SHAME ON THEM...

[uptoolate]

30,000 homes and only 100s dead?

Don't worry about the numbers, Obama will have it up to about a million by the end of the week in his "blame the administration" rant.