North Korea's leaders blame their country's food shortages on floods that occurred last summerin order to hide the inadequacies of the country's communal farming system.
It has called on the government to set up an emergency capital highways maintenance fund, as it did following the floods which hit swathes of the country insummer 2007.
The Environment Agency said Exercise Watermark was England and Wales's biggest emergency planning exercise, and was one of the recommendations made by Sir Michael Pitt in his review of the summer 2007 floods.