No Requests For Food Deliveries Received From North Korea Over Drought - Russian Embassy

Russia has not received requests from North Korea for additional food supplies amid abnormal heat and drought in the country, the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang told Sputnik on Thursday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th August, 2018) Russia has not received requests from North Korea for additional food supplies amid abnormal heat and drought in the country, the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang told Sputnik on Thursday.

"The embassy does not have any information about proposals for the supply of food and humanitarian aid from Russia to North Korea in connection with the drought.

Such requests from the Korean side have not been received," the embassy said.

Last week, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned that a food crisis can emerge in North Korea over crops dying in the current heat wave.