##Visualizing North Korea's Worst Drought in Decades
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is currently experiencing the worst drought it has seen in over a decade. According to reports, some areas have experienced 70 days without rain as well as the lowest rainfall levels since 1961.
As food shortages are already a problem for North Korea, the damage that this drought will likely cause for harvests is cause for alarm.
There are reports of imacts on spring ploughing and paddy field preparation as well as of military mobilization in attempts to divert surface water towards crops.
The map below displays the difference between this years vegetation (an excellent proxy for drought) and a baseline constructed from averaged vegetation levels for the past 5 years (2009-2013). Red areas are cause for alarm as they define the most drought-affected areas, green areas have more vegetation than the past 5 year average, and an absense of color is the result of ground-obscuring clouds in the satellite imagery product that this analysis was constructed from.
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