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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is unhappy with the weather forecasts in his country. He was angry with the meteorological department for "incorrect" forecasts. It is very unusual for a North Korean leader to negative about any part of the government. Mr Kim was one of his country's weather stations when he the comments. He said the techniques to the weather wrong. He told forecasters to use more modern equipment. He told reporters it was important to people's lives, homes and factories. North Korea many natural disasters and has many famines, so it is necessary to accurate weather forecasts.

North Korean people regularly from very bad food shortages. There are many droughts and floods, which means many people do not enough food to . In May, the country's newspapers said North Korea was by one of the worst droughts in over 30 years. This has the chances of more food shortages. In the mid-1990s there a very bad famine. Wikipedia says no one how many people of starvation but says the number is between 240,000 and 3,500,000. North Korea needs a lot of food aid from other countries. Many people would die if they did not this help. However, a lot of this food does not reach the people who it the most.

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