Drought Dashes Hopes for Harvest
From Times Wire Reports
Devastating drought across the country has extinguished all hope that autumn harvests will end food shortages that have caused malnutrition among more than a third of all children, aid workers said in Beijing. Corn and rice plants are wilting in parched fields across the isolated Stalinist nation, prompting officials to grant unprecedented access to agencies helping feed their hungry people, officials of the Oxfam aid agency said. The drought follows two years of flooding that ruined North Korea’s irrigation systems.
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