Across the Northern Hemisphere, intense rainfall is triggering devastating landslides and flooding. The latest area to be affected<\/a> is South Korea<\/a>, which has had several days of heavy rainfall, with more forecast for the early part of this week.\u00a0 At least 40 people have lost their lives. The most deadly single event has been the horrific flooding of a tunnel in Cheongju, North Chungcheong province, in which 13 people are known to have died, and one further person remains missing.<\/p>\n However, in North Gyeongsang at least 19 people have died, the majority of whom were killed by landslides.\u00a0 The highest profile landslide was captured on a video that has been widely circulated and is shown at the start of this clip on Youtube<\/a>:-<\/p>\n