Flooding caused by heavy rain has left hundreds of people dead or missing in North Korea, state media has reported.The rain had flooded tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, official news agency KCNA said.
Worst hit was Kangwon province, where 20,000 homes were damaged, KCNA said.
North Korea was devastated by seasonal floods in August last year. Hundreds of people are thought to have died, although exact figures are not known.
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