According to Yonhap: Seok, 46, who defected to the South in 1998, is known for practicing North Korea’s “royal court medicine” that he learned while working at Pyongyang’s top medical research center devoted solely to caring for the health of leader Kim Jong-il. The research institute is known in South Korea as the Kim Il-sung … Continue reading Yonhap on the DPRK’s Basic Medicine Research Center in Pyongyang