The World Food Program (WFP) has announced that it will swiftly launch activities to help flood victims in North Korea.

The U.N. relief agency said Tuesday that it is awaiting word on the scope of damage from U.N. officials dispatched earlier to the hardest hit areas in the communist state.

According to reports by U.N. officials, 30 percent of arable land in North Hwanghae Province and South Hamgyeong Province have either been swept by heavy flooding or are underwater. The reports also said that many children in those areas are suffering from serious diarrhea.

The WFP, which is currently feeding 750-thousand North Koreans, mainly children and pregnant or nursing women, plans to expand the number of aid recipients to one-point-nine million by next month.

Meanwhile, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched a campaign to raise five-and-a-half million dollars to help the North's flood victims.

In a statement, the organization appealed for international assistance, noting that five regions have been seriously hit by flooding and are in dire need of medical supplies.

Earlier on Monday, North Korean media said some three-hundred people are dead or missing from the flood and around 300-thousand people have been left homeless.