1.   A U.N. food agency warned Friday that North Korea will likely face an acute food crisis this summer as the world focuses on helping Afghanistan.

2.   Africa is the continent with the most acute food shortages, with civil strife aggravating shortages caused by bad weather, the Rome-based agency said.

3.   All defectors have reported acute food shortages and other hardships in the reclusive state.

4.   All defectors have reported acute food shortages and other hardships.

5.   All complained of acute food fuel shortages.

6.   After three years of floods and a severe drought, North Korea faces an acute food shortage.

7.   All defectors reported acute food shortages and other hardships in the reclusive communist state.

8.   All have complained of acute food shortages.

9.   But many pockets of the population are facing acute food supply inadequacies, he added.

10.   Cuba is one of the few remaining communist allies of North Korea, which is suffering from an acute food shortage caused by two successive years of floods.