Maybe Brad's right and the North Korean government is just lying.
Or maybe the bourgeois press is cynically hiding the fact that North Korea really IS a proletarian paradise. :)
>That *is* puzzling, and I don't have an answer for that. From what I've
>read
>about North Korea, it seems like it would have a high infant mortality
>rate.
>I'd be curious to know if anybody has more information on this.
>
>Elisabeth
>
> > From: owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com (lbo-talk-digest)
> > Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:53:19 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: lbo-talk-digest at lists1.panix.com
> > Subject: lbo-talk-digest V1 #2875
> >
> > Speaking of North Korea, I have a question for ya. I was under the
> > impression that the country is a textbook example of squalor. However,
> > perusing the WHO health statistics pages, I discovered that North Korea
>has
> > just about the lowest infant mortality rate in the region (22 out of
>1,000).
> > What gives?
>
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