This file photo shows North Koreans farmers, seen from the window of a train, as they work in the fields along the railway line between Pyongyang and the North Phyongan Province on the west coast, in ... more 

This file photo shows North Koreans farmers, seen from the window of a train, as they work in the fields along the railway line between Pyongyang and the North Phyongan Province on the west coast, in April. A long and widespread drought has ravaged one of North Korea's breadbasket provinces, state media say, sparking fears of worsening food shortages in the impoverished communist state less