21.   North Korea is reeling under acute food shortages that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the past three years.

22.   North Korea, already suffering from acute food shortages, now is battling drought, a radio broadcast in the isolated communist state said Sunday.

23.   North Korea is undergoing economic hardship and reportedly an acute food shortage triggered partly by severe flooding last year.

24.   North Korea faces an acute food shortage following devastating floods last year and this summer.

25.   North Korea has been hit with severe floods and is struggling with acute food shortages this year.

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

27.   North Korea is in its fifth year of acute food shortages caused by massive floods and socialist economic mismanagement.

28.   North Korea is reportedly suffering an acute food shortage, exacerbated by massive flooding last year.

29.   North Korea, a Stalinist state, is suffering from an acute food shortage.

30.   Recent flooding in the isolated Communist country has worsened an already acute food shortage, according to Western representatives who have visited.