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The death toll from severe flooding in the northeast of North Korea has risen to 133 with another 395 missing, the UN said.
Some 107,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the area along the Tumen River, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement received Monday citing Pyongyang government figures.
