Up to 3,000 Believed Dead, Missing In North Korean Floods - AFP

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Nearly 3,000 North Koreans were believed dead or missing in floods and landslides after torrential rains hit the impoverished country, a respected South Korean human rights group said Wednesday.

Monsoon downpours caused much more damage than the secretive North's state media have claimed, said Good Friends, an independent rights group which in the past has provided accurate information about the isolated communist country.

"North Korea has suffered really severe damage from recent rains, with nearly 3,000 people known to have been recorded dead or missing," the group said in a statement. "Damage and casualties are far heavier than known so far to the outside world," it said.

Lee Seung-Yong, a Good Friends activist, refused to say how the group obtained information on North Korea's rain damage. "We are collecting data from various sources," he said.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/a060726110908.8kkmkdb9.html

[napi21]

1. I'm sorry for the NK people. Seems their leader only cares about

his military! So sad!

[mom cat]

2. A lot like our "leader:.