A U.N. aid agency announced Tuesday it will begin emergency aid to North Korean flood victims, the Associated Press reported. The World Food Program said in a statement issued from Pyongyang that it will provide emergency food distribution to 215,000 affected people over the next three months. «The flooding in the (North) is serious,» Tony Banbury, WFP's regional director for Asia, said in the statement. «WFP has worked out satisfactory arrangements with the government so that we can provide emergency food aid to hundreds of thousands of people who need our help.»
