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North Korean Health Throw-Down: WHO Critical of Amnesty Report

(July 16) -- Is North Korean health care "the envy" of developed countries, or a system so low on resources that doctors are now performing amputations without anesthesia? That's a question being debated by two major international health agencies this week, after the World Health Organization today critiqued a scathing...

Amputations Without Anesthesia in NKorea

(July 15) -- North Korea's health system is in dire shambles, with amputations being performed without anesthesia, often under candlelight in impoverished hospitals where doctors are paid in cigarettes. That's according to a report released today by Amnesty International, outlining disastrous medical conditions in the...

NKorea: American Tried Suicide in Communist Prison

(July 9) -- North Korea said today that an American sentenced to eight years of hard labor for trying to enter the communist country has tried to kill himself in prison and is being treated at a hospital. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen from Boston, was convicted in April of entering North Korea illegally...

Justin Bieber NKorea Poll 'Not a Spoof,' Publisher Says

The Web has been rocked lately by a minor controversy involving teen singing sensation Justin Bieber that has almost nothing to do with his actual music. Now, the publisher of an online poll that ranked North Korea as the place that most wanted to see Bieber on tour this summer is hitting back at allegations his website is...

NKorea: To Bomb or Not to Bomb Was the Question

(July 7) -- If North Korea is playing political and military poker, it seems they hold all the top cards. It's been a pain in the side of every Washington administration since the war of the 1950s, and judging from recently declassified papers, it's not a problem that's going to go away anytime soon. Even a nuclear option...