Another dispatch from Michael Yon:

Gunshots ring out at three in the morning as I write these first sentences.
Gunshots, providing muse and meter for this dispatch home to America.
Gunshots, three of them. The war is close.

Looks as if Giuliani is already playing hardball.

Exposing North Korea's hushed and ignored policies of mass starvation. (PJM)

In 1999, while children were starving, Mr. Kim's government treated itself to 40 MiG-21 warplanes purchased from Kazakhstan.

Wikipedia has some skeletal information. Reading between the lines, it looks like the floods simultaneously accentuated and provided cover for gross Government mismanagement.