Morning Briefing

"Footage of malnourished North Korean orphans and official warnings over failed harvests have given a rare glimpse at the scale of devastating food shortages in the country following a harsh winter and widespread flooding," the Guardian reports. "The World Food Programme (WFP) ... estimated in March that a quarter of the country's 24 million inhabitants needed food aid and that a third of children were chronically malnourished" and "has warned it has only 30 percent of the funding it needs for its relief operation, which targets 3.5 million of North Korea's most vulnerable citizens," the newspaper writes.