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Malnutrition Plagues Many in North Korea

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January 18, 2005

According to one report, the average North Korean boy is less than five feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds. Children's growth in the country has been affected by poor nutrition, and the number of North Koreans who died from food shortages in the past decade is in the millions.

 
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