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South Korea offers humanitarian aid to flood-hit North Korea
North Korean state media said on Wednesday that recent heavy rains left 4,100 houses, 7,410 acres of agricultural fields and numerous other public buildings, structures, roads and railways flooded in the northwestern city of Sinuiju and the neighbouring town of Uiju.
The North has not reported details about casualties.
In an emergency Politburo meeting on Wednesday in Sinuiju, leader Kim Jong-un asked authorities to “strictly punish” those who he said neglected their responsibilities for disaster prevention and caused “even the casualty that cannot be allowed”, according to the North’s Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea has suspended virtually all cooperation and diplomacy with the South after its larger nuclear negotiations with the United States derailed in 2019 over disagreements on lifting crippling US-led sanctions and the North’s steps to wind down its nuclear and missile programme.
The North had also rejected South Korea’s offers for help while battling a Covid-19 outbreak in 2022.
Tensions between the rivals have worsened since 2022 as Kim used Russia’s war on Ukraine as a distraction to further accelerate the expansion of his nuclear arsenal and issued belligerent threats toward Washington and Seoul.