1.  Floods this year and last created food shortages that have left nearly all North Koreans on the brink of starvation, U.N. officials say.

2.  Janowski quoted local officials as saying they did not release their last food stocks from warehouses for fear causing a riot.

3.  Local officials did not release their last food stocks from warehouses because they were afraid of causing a riot, U.N. officials said.

4.  WFP last delivered food by barge to the area a year ago.