11.   North Korea is appealing for outside aid to help stave off an acute food shortage, aggravated in the past two years by disastrous floods.

12.   North Korea is in serious economic trouble, trying to recover from two years of disastrous floods that wiped out much of its harvest and destroyed fields.

13.   Resettlement begins this week after a summer of disastrous floods that hit Gypsy settlements on the outskirts of Ostrava particularly hard.

14.   The ministers also discussed Polish-German cooperation during the disastrous floods that inundated central Europe in July.

15.   U.N. officials say North Korea is approaching famine, its chronic food shortage worsened by two years of disastrous floods.

16.   A UN delegation has arrived in North Korea to inspect the impact of disastrous floods there for possible emergency relief aid, Pyongyang said Wednesday.

17.   Agricultural production in North Korea has been all but wiped out in recent years by disastrous floods and mismanagement.

18.   China is bracing for a summer of potentially disastrous floods, with regions around the Yangtze River being warned on Monday that imminent heavy rain could cause further inundation.

19.   UN officials say several million people face possible stavation in the North following disastrous floods last year.

20.   It has launched aid operations for half a million people made homeless or affected by malnutrition in the wake of disastrous floods.