Posted on 05/30/2005 12:30:24 PM PDT by myhubbycooksyummyfood
SEOUL (Reuters) - Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages.
North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will help them increase their height, weight and IQ, a pro-North Korea newspaper published in Japan said on Friday..
"Unlike medications that help growth by clinical methods or hormonal effects, the growth nutritional candy has no negative side effects," the Choson Sinbo said, based on an interview with the head of a nutritional research center in the North.
Unlike sugar-packed and chocolate-covered sweets, the North is hoping that children in the reclusive state will enjoy munching on their nutritional candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, the newspaper said.
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Then let's give them Godiva chocolate.
I bet little Kim invented it too.
Why sure! It'll be a nice change from grass and tree bark.
You mean that insane fruitcake of a dictator is actually going to feed those children?
So what is the UN going to do? Give him a medal? A commendation? Name an NGO after the nutball?
That feckless bunch has stood by for decades while the North Koreans have suffered and died.
I like raw cacao.
Thanks for the funny, even though it smeared my mascara, LOL.
Soylent chocolate?
Welcome to FreeRepublic!
[T]he North is hoping that children in the reclusive state will enjoy munching on their nutritional candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, the newspaper said.
I'd say so...
With North Korea's nuclear arsenal, he can afford this tidbit? Wonder if he'll run out of kids before he runs out of nukes? (sarc)
There's a diet even I could lose weight on.
They can have the mindless ingrates protesting against the presence of US troops in the South.
This story would be rather funny if it wasn't true.
The candy report comes on the same day a top U.N. agency official said the food shortage crisis in North Korea is growing more severe by the day and the communist state is dispensing "starvation rations" to its population.
The candy report comes on the same day a top U.N. agency official said the food shortage crisis in North Korea is growing more severe by the day and the communist state is dispensing "starvation rations" to its population.
I guess starvation is no big deal to the Reuters "news" service.
Good one. But they need not waste chocolate on commies. I will share my Soylent Liberal. We have plenty.
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