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North Korean nuclear tests sickening residents with 'ghost disease,' defectors say
Fox News ^ | December 3, 2017 | Nicole Darrah

Posted on 12/03/2017 2:20:28 PM PST by jazusamo

North Koreans who defected but once lived near a nuclear testing site in the rogue nation now believe they are experiencing the dangerous effects of exposure to harmful radiation — and it's triggered severe health problems, according to a report published Sunday.

"So many people died we began calling it 'ghost disease,'" Lee Jeong Hwa, who in 2010 escaped her home in Kilju County where the nuclear testing site Punggye-ri is located, told NBC News. "We thought we were dying because we were poor and we ate badly. Now we know it was the radiation."

Lee isn’t the only defector who believes the radiation is taking its toll on people who lived there.

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported in November that close to two dozen defectors said the area surrounding Punggye-ri is turning into a “wasteland” where vegetation is dying and babies are born with deformities.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201712; defectors; deformities; kimjongun; northkorea; nucleartests; punggyeri; radiation
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I doubt Kim Jong-un is losing any sleep over this.
1 posted on 12/03/2017 2:20:28 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

This news does not surprise me.

I have expected it.


2 posted on 12/03/2017 2:22:44 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Exactly...I’m surprised there’s not been reports of this before now.


3 posted on 12/03/2017 2:24:26 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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“I doubt Kim Jong-un is losing any sleep over this.”

Not really, since it looks like form an earlier article today that Lil Kim is getting ready to try again with the testing - and perhaps in open air.


4 posted on 12/03/2017 2:26:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: jazusamo

Maybe the radiation will kill all the worms the North Korean people have.

Need bait for fishing? Invite a North Korean to go with you. He’ll have all the worms you need.


5 posted on 12/03/2017 2:27:50 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: jazusamo

Probably contaminated drinking water.


6 posted on 12/03/2017 2:28:04 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: jazusamo

If this is true, then China has detected it from across their border. So much for China not putting up the North Korea soiling their nation.

Seems to me you could’t have this level of a problem without it being detectable from a distance.


7 posted on 12/03/2017 2:28:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: jazusamo

Well, if there’s anything Kim doesn’t need, it’s more hungry people. He looks on that death toll as a fringe benefit of his nuclear program.


8 posted on 12/03/2017 2:29:32 PM PST by txrefugee
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Don’t expect liberals to care too much either. Their hatred for Trump eclipses everything else.


9 posted on 12/03/2017 2:31:17 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: jazusamo

At least the Soviets evacuated Pripyat. Never thought I’d find something worse than the USSR.


10 posted on 12/03/2017 2:31:18 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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all the less NK people little rocket man will need to feed. Hopefully the radiation from his own bombs will kill him too.


11 posted on 12/03/2017 2:31:39 PM PST by drypowder
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To: txrefugee

My co-worker went back to China to get married. His parents live near the NK border and he was there during the last nuke test. He played for me the siren that went off in the village when the explosion happened on his smart phone.


12 posted on 12/03/2017 2:33:00 PM PST by AU72
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m sure you’re right.

China has to be keeping tabs on radiation levels and it’s only common sense that the levels are high.

Still, China has kept quiet about it.


13 posted on 12/03/2017 2:33:06 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: drypowder

no he’ll be the last ‘man’ standing.


14 posted on 12/03/2017 2:33:25 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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last man standing shaking in his boots and his pants full of.................


15 posted on 12/03/2017 2:35:49 PM PST by drypowder
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MAGA!

Lets wrap this FReepathon up, folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

16 posted on 12/03/2017 2:37:24 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Kimmy will be greased by one of his trusted generals.


17 posted on 12/03/2017 2:37:51 PM PST by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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I’ve heard that Kimmy is basically nothing but a figurehead while the generals run things behind the scenes.

Kind of like Hirohito, when really behind the scenes it was Tojo and the generals running things.


18 posted on 12/03/2017 2:39:20 PM PST by dfwgator
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Hopefully sooner rather than later.


19 posted on 12/03/2017 2:40:08 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: dfwgator

If the generals are in charge, how to explain execution by anti aircraft gun... or perhaps starving dogs? These innovations seem to be Kim Kong In related.


20 posted on 12/03/2017 2:50:30 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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