Climate change might hit N. Korea with 'complex security crisis'

Heat waves, droughts and heavy rain linked to climate change could result in a "complex security crisis" for North Korea, affecting food supplies, healthcare systems and even military facilities, a South Korean defense researcher warned. Son Hyo-jong, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, assessed in a recent report that rising temperatures and increasingly frequent droughts and downpours have heightened the country's vulnerability to natural disasters. From July 29 to A