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US: Unoccupied Homes in Buxton, NC Collapse Amid Rough Seas From Offshore Hurricanes 2

On Tuesday, September 30, at least five unoccupied oceanfront homes in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic due to rough surf driven by offshore hurricanes Humberto and Imelda. Another home fell the following morning, bringing the total to six this week and 18 on Hatteras Island since 2020. No injuries were reported, but authorities closed parts of Cape Hatteras National Seashore due to dangerous debris.

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N. Korean Red Cross official expects crop loss due to floods

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, speaks to Kyodo News in Pyongyang on Sept. 13. He says he expects the food shortage in North Korea to worsen after recent floods washed away or submerged 11 percent of the country's farmland.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Photo shows Ryu Song Il (R), chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, in Shenyang, China, on March 20, 2014, after attending informal talks between Japanese and North Korean diplomats on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of the countries' Red Cross societies. At left is Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, heads for the second day of a two-day meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 20, 2014. Government officials from the two countries also attended the meeting.

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Japan, N. Korea officials sit at negotiating table in China

SHENYANG, China - Japanese Red Cross Society officials (R) and their North Korean counterparts hold talks in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on March 19, 2014, in the presence of diplomats from the two countries, including Keiichi Ono (2nd from R), director of the Northeast Asia Division of Japan's Foreign Ministry.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (R), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, and Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, are pictured after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (C), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, and Ryu Song Il (R), chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, attend a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - The Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea hold a meeting in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating. Osamu Tasaka (2nd from R), director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim (2nd from L), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, attended the meeting.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (R), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, attends a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea end 1st day of resumed talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The delegation from the Japanese Red Cross Society (L) and its North Korean counterparts hold a first-day session of their two-day talks at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Aug. 18.

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Japan, N. Korea start Red Cross talks in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), who heads the delegation from the Japanese Red Cross Society, speaks during a meeting with the North Korean Red Cross Society at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Aug. 18. At right is North Korean delegation leader Ri Ho Rim. The Red Cross societies from Japan and North Korea began a two-day meeting to mark the start of a series of dialogues between the two countries this month.

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Japan Red Cross team arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, headed by the society's international relations department chief Hiroshi Higashiura, arrives at Pyongyang airport on Aug. 17. The Japanese team will hold talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18-19.

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Red Cross team leaves Japan for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Hiroshi Higashiura, who heads a Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 15 for talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18 and 19.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to hold next Red Cross talks around June

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Shigekazu Sato (R), deputy director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, give a news conference in Beijing on April 30 at the end of two days of talks between Japanese and North Korean Red Cross delegations. Both sides agreed to hold their next talks around June.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross talks open in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura, head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society (2nd from right), and Ri Ho Rim, deputy secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands at Japan-North Korea Red Cross talks in Beijing on April 29. The two-day meeting will discuss humanitarian issues such as Tokyo's allegations that North Korea abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Japan regrets N. Korea's decision to halt search

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka answers reporters' questions Dec. 18 in Tokyo. She said that if confirmed, the North Korean Red Cross Society's decision Dec. 17 to suspend efforts to locate Japanese citizens Tokyo believes were abducted to N. Korea is ''extremely regrettable.''

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Japan, N. Korea Red Cross societies agree on food aid

BEIJING, China - Tadateru Konoe (R), vice president of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ho Hae Ryong, vice chairman of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands after exchanging a joint statement on humanitarian issues in Beijing on Dec. 21. The statement paves the way for the governments of the two countries to resume talks for normalizing diplomatic ties. Red Cross officials agreed to ask Tokyo to resume food aid to the North at a ''possible early date.''

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Japan, N. Korea reach accord in Red Cross talks

BEIJING, China - Tadateru Konoe (L), vice president of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ho Hae Ryong, vice chairman of the North Korean Red Cross Society, exchange a joint statement on humanitarian issues at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 21, paving the way for resumption of working-level talks between their two governments.

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Red Cross talks between Japan, N. Korea begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Delegates from the Japanese and North Korean Red Cross societies begin two days of discussions in Beijing on Dec. 19 on humanitarian issues as part of stepped-up efforts to normalize bilateral ties. They are expected to discuss such issues as missing Japanese nationals and Japan's food aid to North Korea in the first set of meetings at the Japanese Embassy. The Japanese society's Vice President Tadateru Konoe is second from R, while his North Korean counterpart Ho Hae Ryong is second from L.

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Japan's Red Cross mission heads for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Members of the Japanese Red Cross Society leaves Narita airport for Beijing on Dec. 18 for talks with their North Korean counterparts over humanitarian issues, such as missing Japanese nationals. The delegation, headed by the society's Vice President Tadateru Konoe (C), will meet with representatives from North Korea's Red Cross Society, led by its Vice Chairman Ho Hae Ryong, on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 at the Japanese and North Korean embassies in the Chinese capital.

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Red Cross sends back corpses killed in flood to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Red Cross Society sends home the bodies on Aug. 16 of three dead North Koreans who apparently were killed in torrential rains in late July. The three bodies, which were carried across the border into South Korea by flood waters, were sent to the North through the border village of Panmunjom.

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Japan regrets N. Korea's decision to halt search

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka answers reporters' questions Dec. 18 in Tokyo. She said that if confirmed, the North Korean Red Cross Society's decision Dec. 17 to suspend efforts to locate Japanese citizens Tokyo believes were abducted to N. Korea is ''extremely regrettable.''

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross talks open in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura, head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society (2nd from right), and Ri Ho Rim, deputy secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands at Japan-North Korea Red Cross talks in Beijing on April 29. The two-day meeting will discuss humanitarian issues such as Tokyo's allegations that North Korea abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

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N. Korean Red Cross official expects crop loss due to floods

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, speaks to Kyodo News in Pyongyang on Sept. 13. He says he expects the food shortage in North Korea to worsen after recent floods washed away or submerged 11 percent of the country's farmland. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to hold next Red Cross talks around June

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Shigekazu Sato (R), deputy director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, give a news conference in Beijing on April 30 at the end of two days of talks between Japanese and North Korean Red Cross delegations. Both sides agreed to hold their next talks around June.

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Japan, N. Korea start Red Cross talks in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), who heads the delegation from the Japanese Red Cross Society, speaks during a meeting with the North Korean Red Cross Society at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Aug. 18. At right is North Korean delegation leader Ri Ho Rim. The Red Cross societies from Japan and North Korea began a two-day meeting to mark the start of a series of dialogues between the two countries this month. (Kyodo)

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Japan Red Cross team arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, headed by the society's international relations department chief Hiroshi Higashiura, arrives at Pyongyang airport on Aug. 17. The Japanese team will hold talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18-19. (Kyodo)

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Red Cross team leaves Japan for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Hiroshi Higashiura, who heads a Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 15 for talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18 and 19. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Red Cross mission heads for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Members of the Japanese Red Cross Society leaves Narita airport for Beijing on Dec. 18 for talks with their North Korean counterparts over humanitarian issues, such as missing Japanese nationals. The delegation, headed by the society's Vice President Tadateru Konoe (C), will meet with representatives from North Korea's Red Cross Society, led by its Vice Chairman Ho Hae Ryong, on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 at the Japanese and North Korean embassies in the Chinese capital.

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Red Cross sends back corpses killed in flood to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Red Cross Society sends home the bodies on Aug. 16 of three dead North Koreans who apparently were killed in torrential rains in late July. The three bodies, which were carried across the border into South Korea by flood waters, were sent to the North through the border village of Panmunjom.