North Korea and China Flash Floods (August 2025)

Catastrophic flash floods struck North Korea and China's Liaoning province in August 2025, killing hundreds and forcing over 500,000 evacuations in North Korea alone. Typhoon-driven rainfall caused river systems to overflow, inundating agricultural land critical to food security in an already food-insecure country. China's losses in Liaoning exceeded $8 billion, making it one of the costliest flood events in northeast Asia in a decade.