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Kim Jong-un’s regime have made an appeal for aid as massive floods ravage the beggar kingdom – wiping out villages, destroying towns, and drowning farmland.

With a rare admission the country in dire need of help, the DPRK admitted they are facing their “heaviest downpour” since 1945 and their people are facing "great suffering".

The UN estimate 133 people have been killed, 395 people are missing, 100,000 are homeless, and 140,000 are in need of “urgent assistance”.

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Reports say 17,000 houses have been destroyed or damaged as floods swept the nation brought by Typhoon Lionrock.

The worst impacted areas are around the Tumen river which serves as the secretive state’s border with China and Russia.

24,000 acres of farmland in the region have been destroyed, set to worsen North Korea's already near critical food crisis.

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North Korean authorities are now welcoming Western aid agencies into the nation to help stop curb the growing humanitarian disaster.

Water supplies to more than 600,000 people have been cut and transport links have been destroyed.

But the disaster comes after Kim Jong-un’s regime taunted the world with nuclear bomb tests and threatened all out war.

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Chris Staines, who is leading a Red Cross delegation, said North Korea is facing "a very major and complex disaster".

"The floods came through with such force, they destroyed everything in their path," he added.

"People displaced from the floods are now in a very difficult situation and there are real risks of secondary disasters, particularly relating to people's health.”

South Korea have this week been plotting a preemptive strike which they have promised would “level” Pyongyang.

Meanwhile, Seoul is due to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss the growing nuclear threat in the region.

The meeting comes after Kim’s man in Russia defected South in a move which enraged the DPRK.

Conflict is set to the brewing the Pacific region as the two Koreas make up part of the terrifying Apocalypse Cauldron which could brew over into World War 3.