North Korea experiencing worst drought since 2001, UN warns

North Korea is heading for its worst drought since 2001, the United Nations warned, raising possibility of increased food shortages in the rogue state.

"More rains are urgently needed to avoid significant decreases in the main 2017 cereal production season," a report by the UN Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

North Korea is still recovering from a deadly famine in the late 1990s, and the UN's World Food Programme estimates 70% of the country's 25 million people still don't eat a "sufficiently diverse diet."

"Seasonal rainfall in main cereal producing areas have been below the level of 2001, when cereal production dropped to the unprecedented level of only two million tonnes," Vincent Martin, FAO representative in China and North Korea, said in a statement.

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