‘Most N. Koreans Vulnerable to Epidemics’
From the Korea Times:
9/6/2006
A medical checkup of more than 1,000 North Korean defectors indicates that their fellow countrymen in the communist country are generally left defenseless against epidemics, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Quoting a 2005 report by the state-run Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Rep. Chung Hyung-keun said 77 percent of 1,075 North Korean defectors examined here were found to have suffered diphtheria and rubella while in the North.
