South Korea sends flood aid to North
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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.
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Some of the worst flooding to hit North Korea in decades has killed at least 600 people, double the previous known toll, the official news agency said at the weekend.
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North Korea, where floods have seriously damaged nearly one sixth of arable land, will continue to need international food aid in the long term, the United Nations said on Friday.
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South Korea has stepped up aid to impoverished North Korea through international agencies this year, donating about 40 million dollars so far to seven programmes, officials said Monday.
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South Korea said on Thursday that it would send a small amount of food to the impoverished North as part of an international aid effort but any large shipments would remain dependent on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea could face famine after floods destroy crops, worsening food shortages, a study says.
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TOKYO - Typhoon Songda battered Japan and South Korea yesterday, killing at least three people in southern Japan as it triggered torrential rain and floods.
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A South Korean news report says a large explosion rocked North Korea&#39;s northernmost inland province of Yanggang last Thursday, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air.
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Pakistan launched a huge relief operation for some 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll over 260 nationwide, officials said on Saturday.
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North Korea has been pummelled by heavy rains that have caused &quot;heavy losses&quot; and flooded swathes of cropland for the second time in a month, state media reported.
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The United States expressed condolences to North Korea's losses of life and homes in widespread flooding and offered to discuss with Kim Jong Il's government provision of "a significant food aid package, including monitoring procedures."
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SEOUL : A huge explosion rocked North Korea&#39;s northern inland province of Ryanggang last week, triggering a mushroom cloud at least two miles in radius, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Six South Koreans died and four were  missing in South Korea on Sunday after a typhoon hit the  country&#39;s southern coast, an official from the government  emergency agency said.
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Floods in North Korea in recent weeks have affected 437,000 people and damaged more than one-fifth of the country&#39;s rice crop, according to official North Korean estimates, the UN&#39;s food relief agency said Friday.
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Nearly a thousand people are dead or missing in flash floods and landslides that have devastated a large section of the northern Philippines, rescue officials said.
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PANMUNJOM, South Korea  - Regional powers agreed on Tuesday to give half the aid they promised North Korea for disabling its ageing nuclear plant to help refurbish the communist state's dilapidated infrastructure.