Town of Yangduk, Nothing but Mud

In the Yangduk County, South Pyongan Province, 18units of the five storied apartments and 3000houses were utterly collapsed by the flood and left 9,000 people to be displaced from their homes that means dead are more than those who have survived the disaster. The displaced people are housed in tents with plastic covering, schools or camping out in small huts and live on relief goods that has been provided by nation-wide. Other districts away from the centre of the town are in the same situation.

Railways in Yangduk district had great

SEOUL, Aug 30 (Reuters) - South Korea sent a first shipment of food and other supplies to reclusive North Korea on Wednesday to help it cope with the aftermath of heavy July flooding.

China, meanwhile, voiced deep concern at the situation facing its impoverished communist neighbour following the floods and pledged urgent humanitarian assistance.

Three storms struck North Korea last month, washing away crops and raising the threat of famine. As of mid-July, more than 800 North Koreans were dead or missing from the floods, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper published in Japan said.

China will provide humanitarian assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) including grain, food, diesel oil and medicine for disaster relief, said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang in Beijing on Wednesday.

Qin said the Chinese government is very concerned about the flood in the DPRK.

Members of the Korea Life Cooperative Union, a local nongovernmental organization promoting environmental protection, is to ship 21 million won worth of food aid to North Korea in the aftermath of last month's torrential rains in the communist nation.

The 5th general meeting of the Civil-Governmental Policy Coordination Conference between the private humanitarian aid organizations and the South Korean government was held at the Central Government Complex in the morning of August 11. The chairman of the Humanitarian Aid Organizations Conference on North Korea and Vice Unification Minister Shin Eon-sang jointly presided over the meeting. The officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, along with the representatives from North Korea relief organizations, attended the meeting.

SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - South Korea will send 100,000 tonnes of rice through its Red Cross to flood-ravaged North Korea in a one-time aid package that also includes building materials and equipment, the government said on Sunday.
Seoul, a major supplier of aid to the impoverished North, had cut off its ongoing food aid after Pyongyang defied international warnings and test-fired seven missiles on July 5.

Major storms hit the North last month, causing flooding that killed at least 151, according to the International

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2006/0159
OCHA Situation Report No. 2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Floods

This situation report is based on the information received from the United Nations Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator's Office (UN RC/HC) in Pyongyang and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies among others.

Situation

1. Torrential rain between 14 and 16 July caused severe floods and landslides in many parts of the country, affecting mostly South Pyongan, North Hwanghae, Kangwon and South Hamgyong

Red Cross officials from South and North Korea will meet Saturday to discuss the South's humanitarian flood relief to the North, the Unification Ministry said on Thursday (Aug 17). The meeting will take place at Mt. Geumgang in the North.
Last week, the government decided to donate 10 billion won ($10.3 million) worth of aid to North Korea through private humanitarian aid groups while sending rice and medicine, and equipment necessary for repair work through the South's Korean National Red Cross (KNRC).

"The KNRC made a proposal to its

SEOUL, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Red Cross officials from the two Koreas will meet on Saturday to discuss food and reconstruction aid after flooding in North Korea destroyed farms, buildings and railways, an official said on Thursday.

Three major storms hit North Korea last month, causing floods that left at least 549 people dead and 295 missing, a pro-Pyongyang paper in Japan reported. Experts said the floods could push the country, which already battles food shortages, into famine.

"North Korea today in a message by Chairman Jang Jae-on of the North Korean Red Cross agreed to the offer