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 … Continue reading ‘Most N. Koreans Vulnerable to Epidemics’