North Korea’s leading newspaper on Tuesday warned that the country’s agriculture sector was “sustaining damage” due to an ongoing fall in average precipitation, calling for citizens to mobilize to fight damage to crops caused by an ongoing drought in the country. 

In an article carried on the front page of ruling party organ the Rodong Sinmun, DPRK state media reported that the country’s projected rainfall will “be far lower than the average by late May.”

“A drought phenomenon reportedly is forecast [across the country],” the article read.

Highlighting efforts in the country’s western South Hwanghae province and elsewhere