UN delegation visits north Korea to identify typhoon damage

A UN delegation visited North Korea Wednesday to identify the scale of damage inflicted on the country by a recent typhoon and heavy rains. A spokesman for the UNICEF East Asia-Pacific regional office said the UN delegation focused its survey on areas in South Pyeongan Province and Gangwon Province, North Korea, according to the Korean (KBS WORLD) website. Previously, North Korea reported that 88 people were killed and 134 others wounded when Typhoon Khanun and heavy rains struck the Korean Peninsula between July 18th and the 30th. The North said the natural disaster also left 60-thousand people homeless. Concerns of an aggravating food shortage are rising in the North, which suffered under its worst drought in a century in addition to the recent typhoon.