<br /> The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday that a heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects."<br />Reuters reports that the world’s largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a “full-blown food security crisis” in the isolated country. There a famine in the mid-1990s killed up to three million people. <br />
