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Desperate Hunger Plagues N. Korea, Forces Change

Rampant malnutrition fuels capitalist markets

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 6, 2009 8:10 AM CST

(Newser) – North Korea has, in its words, an “eating problem”: unable to feed its residents, it has become the world’s first nuclear-armed “beggar,” the Washington Post reports. Malnutrition has led to a spate of mental and physical disabilities—a quarter of potential...   Read full story »

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