Homes across North Korea lie inundated in the aftermath of a country-wide flood that has already killed at least 169 people.
Hundreds are still missing and over 210,000 are homeless.
With huge swathes of farmland washed away, the UN's World Food Programme say they are providing emergency rations to the chronically malnourished country.
At a news conference in China, the UN said help is on its way.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CLAUDIA VON REHL, WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME REPRESENTATIVE, SAYING:
"The World Food Programme, whose representative I am, has activated emergency response and has delivered 336 metric tonnes of maize to about 60,000 people in 16 counties that have been the most affected ones. The food rations the people will get are consisted of 400 grams of maize per day for two weeks."
An estimated one millions died during North Korea's famine in the 1990s. Since then, the country continues to endure chronic food shortages.
Many experts say this reflects systematic failings in North Korea's heavily centralised economic system, which has sapped the productivity of the country's farmers.
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