A review of humanitarian aid operations in North Korea’s flood-hit regions has been published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday, highlighting several key achievements and some shortcomings by the responding in-country teams.

In late August and early September of 2016, extensive flooding in North Korea’s northeast regions instigated by Typhoon Lionrock caused extensive damage and impacted an estimated 600,000 people.

The OCHA “After Action Review” of the September to March operations in North Hamgyong Province by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) details how several support targets were surpassed in key areas such as food security,