31.   Tens of thousands of farm laborers have been driven from their homes, and the country is beginning to experience acute food shortages.

32.   Tens of thousands of farm laborers have been driven from their homes, while the country is beginning to experience acute food shortages.

33.   South Korea on Wednesday shipped more emergency food aid for North Korea, an impoverished Communist rival suffering acute food shortages.

34.   The North, already suffering acute food shortages, has been receiving emergency aid from rival South Korea and Japan.

35.   The North is said to be suffering acute food shortages.

36.   The North is seeking outside aid to help ease its acute food shortage.

37.   The North, its economy crumbling, reportedly is suffering acute food shortages caused by chronic underproduction complicated by massive floods last summer.

38.   The previously unannounced joint exercise came as North Korea was struggling to ease an acute food shortage.

39.   The secretive state does admit to suffering an acute food shortage.

40.   The United Nations will test an alternate route for aid convoys to embattled northwestern Bosnia, where starvation looms because of acute food shortages, officials said Monday.