21 Aug, 2007, 1920 hrs IST,
The World Food Programme (WFP) said the Pyongyang government had authorised it to start distribution in 37 counties across six provinces and deliveries would begin immediately.
The WFP appealed for international help to meet the five to six million dollar cost of the emergency flood aid, to avoid having to cut back on its existing programme which feeds children and expectant and nursing mothers.
In unusually detailed reports, the secretive communist state has said about 300 people are dead or missing following torrential rain earlier this month, 300,000 are homeless and 11 per cent of the grain harvest -- equivalent to 450,000 tonnes -- has been lost.
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