Last week’s heavy rain has reportedly caused the loss of around 100-thousand tons of food supplies in North Korea.

The U.N. World Food Program said in a report Monday that some 30-thousand hectares of farmland had been inundated and an estimated 60-thousand people were left homeless with almost 75 percent of losses from South Pyongan province in central North Korea.

The relief agency said it was preparing initial aid of some 75 tons of food to help 13-thousand flood victims.

Meanwhile, a delegation of South Korean businesspeople that just returned from a visit to Pyongyang said North Korean officials had told them that the North had suffered serious damages from the torrential rains.

However, the delegation was quick to add that the North had not made any request for relief aid apparently due to the fact that the South has suspended its provision of rice and fertilizer to the North following Pyongyang’s missile tests.