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According to a statement published on 11 September 2016, by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's official state media, the country's northeast has been affected by the "heaviest downpour" since 1945, with "tens of thousands" of buildings destroyed and people left homeless and "suffering from great hardship".
Typhoon Lionrock, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Dindo, was a large, powerful, long-lived and erratic tropical cyclone which caused significant flooding and casualties in North Korea and Japan in late August 2016.
Flooding in North Korea killed 40 people. August 31 – September 15, 2016 – The remnants of Typhoon Lionrock hit North Korea, causing widespread flooding that led to the deaths of at least 525 people. This made Lionrock the deadliest typhoon to strike the Korean Peninsula since Typhoon Sarah 57 years prior. [36] [37] October 7, 2016 ...
What storm comes next after Hurricane Milton? What we learned about how storms are named.
Before 1953, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year, not by names. At first, the United States only used female names for storms.
South Korea: 1972 653 1972 Luzon flood: Philippines: 1972 610 2007 North Korean floods: North Korea: 2007 595 1999 Vietnamese floods: Vietnam: 1999 594 Hanoi and Red River Delta flood North Vietnam: 1971 540 1969 Tunisia flooding Tunisia: 1969 532 Cuzco, Huallaga, torrential rain, flooding, landslide Peru: 1982 517
In the year 2016, North Korea conducted two nuclear tests: one in January and the other in September. Additionally, the country conducted several missile tests. As consequence, the United Nations Security Council adopted three resolutions against North Korea. The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in May.
It caused $30 billion in damage and more than 40 deaths. It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. at the time. When the 1992 hurricane season ended, the name Andrew was ...