SEOUL – North Korea’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper carried a series of articles last week advising people how to act in times of flooding, with one of the directions saying, “do not eat dirty food washed away in floodwaters.”
According to Yonhap news agency, the articles were carried from Wednesday to Friday to advise people about what to and not to do in case of typhoons, lightning and flooding, as a series of heavy downpours have battered the Korean peninsula in recent weeks.
Notable among them was the advice to stay away from dirty food.
That illustrates the food shortages the destitute North has been suffering for decades even as the regime has pushed strongly for the development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Other advice include staying away from a street if water is ankle-deep – because people can fall in just 15 cm-deep water – and going up onto the roof when water fills up buildings. – Bernama, August 21, 2022
