Drought causes food shortages

North Korea has said it is suffering its worst drought inn early four decades amid reports of a food crisis in the country.

The official Korean Central News Agency said an average of 2.1 inches of rain fell throughout the country in the first five months of this year.

It said that is the lowest level since 1982, when North Korea received two inches of rain on average during the same period.

The report came after UN food agencies said earlier this month that about ten million people in North Korea were facing “severe food short ages” after the country had one of the worst harvests in a decade.