2. Physicians Density per 1,000 people Population Percent of children under age 5 underweight 1.72 205,716,8902.20% 1.415 1,343,239,9238.70% 0.01 10,884,95820.80% 0.599 1,205,073,61243.50% 0.85 2,889,1872.20% 2.893 114,975,4063.40% 0.395 170,123,74026.70% 3.29 24,589,12220.60% 2.672 313,847,4651.30% 1.244 91,519,28920.20% Brazil China Guinea India Jamaica Mexico Nigeria South Korea United States Vietnam

7.  Malaria is a common disease in many labor camps in North Korea. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. When they bite an infected person and then bite another one, the parasites are spread to that other person. The malaria parasites can travel to your liver and stay dormant for a year before symptoms show up. These symptoms include: Diarhhea, vomiting, nausea, sweats, chills, headache.

13. . You can’t turn off the government radio installed in your home, only reduce the volume. 2. Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is second-nature for ordinary citizens to “rescue” portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else in the case of a house fire (there are even special bunkers for statues in case of war) 3. Many people don’t even know that man has walked on the moon. 4. There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned. 5. A main cause for all problems are Americans. Mothers teach their children to sing songs about bad Americans, there are many postage stamps showing the death of “U.S imperialists” 6. A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer” work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.

14.  7. The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”. 8. About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps. 9. Most traffic control is performed by female traffic directors (reportedly handpicked by Kim Jong-Il for their beauty), as the lights are switched off to save electricity. 10. Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean. 11. Avarage wage in 2005 was 6$ (source: 12. Visitors of North Korea are given special guides and can’t go anywhere without them. 13. North Koreans are used to often disappearing electricity and have many candles prepared. 14. North Korea has the fourth-largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel