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U.N. says North Korea unusually open about flood damage

Sun Sep 2, 2007 9:52AM BST

By Mark Chisholm

PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea has responded to outside help after devastating floods with unusual openness, a top U.N. official in the country said, but added providing assistance to the reclusive state was still a massive challenge.

Jean-Pierre de Margerie said the floods, which left at least 600 dead, had also left hundreds of thousands homeless and destroyed farmland and infrastructure, a blow to a country that faces chronic food shortages.Publish Post

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