Posted on 01/04/2016 11:42:48 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Alcohol cited as cause in N Koreans' deaths
Mon, 4 January 2016
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Two North Korean doctors died on Saturday from apparent alcohol poisoning in circumstances police initially deemed suspicious.
Dr An Hyong Chan, 56, and Dr Rimun Chol, 50, died in the clinic that doubles as their home on Street 594 in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kork district, after an evening of eating and drinking with their wives and 10 other North Koreans, according to Boeung Kak II commune police chief Khan Khun Tith.
"According to the autopsy report, the victims both died of a heart attack," he said, adding that when police arrived at the victims' home they found 14 North Korean nationals there, along with the dead doctors' wives.
Tith said the victims' wives told police their husbands had consumed numerous cocktails by the time they returned home, and developed a very high temperature, leading their spouses, also doctors, to inject them with a substance intended to counteract the effects of alcohol.
Tith quoted one of the wives as saying: "After arriving home, we [the wives] checked their conditions, and their temperature had reached 40 degrees Celsius, and their heartbeat was abnormal and their pulses abnormally weak.
So we tried to save them by injecting medicine and serum to weaken the intoxication, but an hour later, they had a heart attack and died."
The deaths were not reported to police until Saturday afternoon, hours after they occurred, when the North Korean Embassy contacted authorities.
Speaking yesterday morning, Khun Tith initially said the examination of one of the victims raised questions about the wives' account of how their husbands died.
"We think the deaths might be suspicious because one of the victims had scratch marks on his chest and stomach," he said.
However, hours later, Tith said authorities were happy with the explanation of the dead man's wife that the scratches on his body were self-inflicted after he had started clawing at his stomach and chest due to pain in his chest.
Tith added that the North Korean Embassy had also accepted the wives' account, and the case was therefore closed.
When reporters visited the clinic yesterday afternoon, they were told to leave by four North Korean men.
"We don't want any interviews with journalists," one of them said.
“...to inject them with a substance intended to counteract the effects of alcohol.”
Probably monkey eyeball juice with rhino horn powder and tiger gal bladder extract.
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Cheap local hooch cut with wood alcohol?
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"If it ain't Boeung, I ain't going."
I knew North Koreans couldn’t hold their liquor. I wonder if it came from ‘Kim Jung Un Winery and Liquid Poisons Company’.
Cheap local hooch cut with wood alcohol?
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Lots of people at the party boozing but only two died.
I suspect the wives. An autopsy might be in order.
So, it really wasn’t the dreaded anti aircraft gun?
It’s the scrawny bodies that can’t handle as much alcohol as say, Italians.
Having seen a South Korean professor get legless drunk and have to be carried to his taxi home after trading shots of soju with an American counterpart who outweighed him by about 150 pounds I can testify that Koreans can be fearless drinkers to and past the point of stupid. Add in celebration over being allowed out of the North to live in the relative comfort of Cambodia and you’ve got motivation for an epic and lethal drunk.
Or Germans...I'll never forget surviving a drinking game at a German disco. I stopped counting after the 15th shot of Jagermeister, plus I had at least a gallon of beer by then. I was an oddity, an American who could hold his own with the Germans.
I had two things going for me: I was of German/Scot genes, and my four years of college prepared me well for the rigors of living in Germany. lol
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