North Korea defied world with nuclear test. Now it seeks aid for flood disaster.

[WhiteTara]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-korea-defied-world-with-nuclear-test-now-it-seeks-aid-for-flood-disaster/2016/09/12/3e710483-476f-4f04-aae4-52af58064e91_story.html

TOKYO — Floods that devastated North Korea last month are turning out to be worse than initially feared, with more than 100,000 people left homeless, according to aid workers who visited the area last week.

That puts Pyongyang in the inconvenient position of having to turn to the international community for help — at the same time as the country is facing global condemnation after its latest nuclear test last year.

“The effects of this flooding will be even more dramatic and devastating than initially thought,” said Chris Staines, the head of the Pyongyang office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The people there are in a very desperate situation.”

Staines was part of a group of 22 international and local staff from 13 aid agencies stationed in Pyongyang who last week visited the northern city of Hoeryong, across the Tumen River from China.

Devastating floods ripped through the area Aug. 30 as Typhoon Lionrock lashed northeast Asia. The North Korean authorities initially estimated that 44,000 people had been displaced between Onsong in the north and Musan, a major mining center 100 miles down river.

[FLPanhandle]

1. Standard Operating Procedue for NK

Sabre-rattle then seek aid. Repeat.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I'm surprised the government even cares.

They put all of their money into the military and just let the people starve. Millions have starved to death in that country. So what's the big deal about a flood that kills a bunch?

I wish that asshole would just blow himself and the rest of that government up and let the people go free.

[treestar]

5. True

makes you wonder if the aid actually goes to help the people affected.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. I really doubt it.

It probably goes directly to the military.

[HDSam]

3. Un will declare

once this current disaster is over that the international community only provided assistance due to fear of and respect for their nuclear weapons program.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R As for "aid" I'll send North Korea a bucket or phrase that rhymes with it

This image comes from a website, which calls it their F*CK Bucket List:

[MiniMe]

6. Wasn't their last nuclear test last week?

I thought I read something about that in the last week.

Lil Kim reminds me of the Donald, it's all about him