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  • North Korea defied world with nuclear test. Now it seeks aid for flood disaster.

    09/12/2016 11:23:38 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 16 replies
    Washington Post ^ | September 12 at 10:56 AM | Anna Fifield
    Floods that devastated North Korea last month are turning out to be worse than initially feared, with more than 100,000 people left homeless, according to aid workers who visited the area last week. That puts Pyongyang in the inconvenient position of having to turn to the international community for help — at the same time as North Korea is facing global condemnation after its nuclear test last week. “The effects of this flooding will be even more dramatic and devastating than initially thought,” said Chris Staines, the head of the Pyongyang office of the International Federation of Red Cross and...