© UNOCHAMap of North Korea showing the areas affected by severe flooding
Severe flooding in North Korea has led to the deaths of 133 people, with 395 reported missing, according to the UN. More than 100,000 have been forced to flee their homes.
Some 107,000 people have been displaced in the area along the Tumen River, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement, citing figures from Pyongyang.
The official KCNA news agency reported on Sunday that the flooding in the country's northeast has led to "great hardship." A labor campaign designed to bolster the nation's economy has been shifted to "direct all efforts to the construction of dwelling houses to provide flood-hit people with warm cradles and turn the flood-battered region into a fairyland in the era of the Workers' party within this year," the agency reported, quoting the country's Central Committee.
An address published in the country's official state media has called on all citizens to take part in the recovery work, TASS reported, stating that "all the human, material, and technical resources of the country have been mobilized."
Workers from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent are reportedly taking part in humanitarian efforts, distributing aid to those in the worst-hit areas.
Comment: See also this report of the earlier event: Magnitude 5.3 earthquake rocks southeastern South Korea