UN releases video of North Korean children in hospital it says are badly nourished

ROME ? A U.N. food agency on Friday released grim footage of what it described as severely malnourished North Korean children in the country hit by recent flooding.

The Rome-based World Food Program said it shot video at the Haeju Pediatric Hospital in the country?s western South Hwanghae province in mid-August. It shows health care workers pulling on the mottled, loose skin of a wailing child?s belly, and an image of an infant on an intravenous drip.

Heavy rain and tropical storms have pounded the country in the past few months, leaving dozens of people dead or missing, displacing thousands of others and exacerbating chronic food shortages in rural areas.

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