Severe floods have killed nearly 169 people and injured 144 since July in North Korea, state KCNA news agency reported.
Another 400 people are missing during the floods which hit four regions of the country and destroyed crops at an area of 65,000 hectares. UN experts, who came to North Korea this week to estimate damages, consider that the country is likely to face hunger due to crops losses.
Under UN estimates, about two-thirds of the population in North Korea faces shortage of food and pure water.
The floods, caused by recent downpours and typhoons, also hit North Korean mining industry as water flooded tens of coal mines in two large coal deposits in the country's north. Coal production accounts for more than 80 percent of North Korean fuel-energy balance.
North Korea's agricultural sector has been repeatedly hitting by floods and droughts from mid-1990s.
