North Korea made the news in the west in July because it was testing missles.

What we haven’t been hearing about is the nearly 55 thousand dead, the 2.5 million homeless and the devestation of farmland that is going to cause severe famine for the country of 23 million.

The 10 July typhoon, which was followed by three days of violent monsoon rains, washed away large tracts of farmland and entire villages, creating an emergency in a country that fails to feed its people even in normal times. The typhoon also swept away 231 bridges. The southwestern province of Hwanghaedo, one of the main grain-producing areas of the nation, was among those hardest hit. According to the NGO estimates, at least 300,000 homes were destroyed or damaged.