This year's need is expected to surpass that of 1999 with most of the country mired in drought. Over 100 million head of livestock are also affected by one of the worst drought's this country has ever seen. They had ingested pesticides. Like many countries where drought has struck for the second year in a row, food and water supplies have had no time to recover since last year. Hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland were hard hit by drought.
Worst damage is in Pyongyang and on the plains in the west coast.
Paddy fields are parched with the roots of rice plants exposed.