As North Korea suffers declining daily food rations and a serious drought, the country’s state media has begun placing serious emphasis on water shortages and a “campaign to secure water.”

In October, a World Food Program report revealed that key agricultural regions had experienced lower-than-normal rainfall in the spring, and that the drought may lead to a poor fall harvest in a country heavily reliant on rain-fed agriculture.

In a front-page editorial in today’s Rodong Sinmun, the editorial expressed concern that the continuing drought was the worst in the past 100 years, and that water for dams and for