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North Korea says drought worst in 100 years

North Korea has been hit by its worst drought in a century, state media say, raising fears of another looming food crisis in the impoverished communist country.

North Korea has suffered from long-running food shortages since a disastrous famine in the mid-1990s that is believed to have killed as many as 1 million people. The country's agriculture remains in a fragile state, heavily influenced by weather conditions and worsened by the regime's poor economic management.

The drought has devastated agricultural land in Hwanghae and Pyongan provinces, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said, noting that more than 30 per cent of rice paddies across the country were "parching up".

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