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North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink"

__roo writes "According to North Korea's official news agency, a drink produced by North Korea's Moranbong Carbonated Fruit Juice Joint Venture Company can cure aging and all disease. 'It, with effects of both preventive and curative treatment, helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells. It also protects skin from wrinkles and black spots and prevents such geriatric diseases as cerebral hemorrhage, myocardium and brain infarction by removing acid effete matters in time.' It also has no side-effects." Last month North Korea announced its fusion breakthrough, and now it has a super drink. One can only imagine what wonders may come in July — perhaps self-buttering toast.

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  1. We've had that for years! by OhHellWithIt · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called beer goggles.

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    1. Re:We've had that for years! by skogula · · Score: 2, Funny

      He who controls the spice, controls the universe!

  2. So they won't need to worry by Peter+Simpson · · Score: 5, Funny

    About who's going to succeed Kim Jong-Il, then.

    1. Re:So they won't need to worry by sznupi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Or his demise could suddenly be "guaranteed" to be an act of assasination...

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    2. Re:So they won't need to worry by M8e · · Score: 2, Funny

      FYI, North korea has been an necrocracy for 16 years. Kim Il-sung is still the official leader.

      You know, they have a deal with satan or something.

  3. No different than the food supplements in America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No different than the food supplements in America. They make all these claims and then some.

  4. \/|4gr4 by nwmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will also make your penis grow in size, will make your erection last longer, and your orgasms more intense.

    1. Re:\/|4gr4 by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 2, Funny

      Great. Now we're gonna start getting spammed by North Korean pharmacies instead of just the Canadian ones.

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  5. Kim Jong-il by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder he hasn't changed a bit since 10 years.

  6. Re:and China puts up with this? by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because Chinese love the drink?

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  7. Not only self-buttering toast by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    But self-buttering toast that lands butter-side UP when dropped, every time, meaning they have developed a small anti-Murphian field that envelops each slice of toast.

    Next, this Anti-Murphian field will be generated on a larger scale and will be developed as an active defense, meaning that anything that can go right will go wright.

    However, the device will be immediately outlawed and everyone involved in the project killed once Kim Jong-Il realizes that if he ever got in the vicinity of an anti-Murphian field he would be instantly deposed or killed.

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  8. Look what it did for the Great Leader by mr_death · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... he still hits a hole-in-one every day!

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  9. Jim Jones already tried this by areusche · · Score: 4, Funny

    and it didn't work out too well.

  10. Wonderful by c · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now all they need to do is come up with a drink which protects against death by starvation and torture and the North Korean people will have something to celebrate.

    c.

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  11. Speaking of anti-Murphian! by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Wright-Murphy feud is almost as famous as the Hatfield-McCoy... no, wait, I think you are just trying to start something!

    Let me fire the first salvo, I'll make up something...

    Wright's Law: If something can go right, it will, for someone else.

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    1. Re:Speaking of anti-Murphian! by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wright's Law: If something can go right, it will, for someone else.

      I thought Wright's Law stated that anything that can go rong will go rong.

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  12. Re:No different than the food supplements in Ameri by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for Kevin Trudeau to release a book titled, "Nuclear Fusion secrets THEY don't want you to know."

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  13. Anti-aging, immunity boost, whatever... by Millennium · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real question is, has it got electrolytes?

  14. Not so fast, North Korea by scorp1us · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many of you are familiar with he earth-at-night photo.

    Well did you ever take a look at North Korea? They don't have electricity, much less health care.

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    1. Re:Not so fast, North Korea by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well did you ever take a look at North Korea? They don't have electricity, much less health care.

      No, the super drink just encourages you to go to bed early, and not leave the lights on.

      Just like the Great Leader said, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a dictator healthy, wealthy and wise."

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    2. Re:Not so fast, North Korea by thijsh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey I can see Kim Jong-Il's house there, that one little dot... He must not be able to sleep at night...

    3. Re:Not so fast, North Korea by coffii · · Score: 2, Funny

      As you can clearly see the majority of North Korea uses non-light polluting light, it's considerably more advanced than the light used in other nations.

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    4. Re:Not so fast, North Korea by scorp1us · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'm not comparing it to the US. I'm comparing it to SOUTH KOREA. They have the same background, up until the war, when SK was left capatialist and NK stayed communist. This is what I am arguing.

      If you want a US comparison, for comparison, go here and enter in Valentine, Nebraska. They manage to have a dot. Its the intersection of five roads in the middle of nowhere. then look at it at google earth. Its about 25 blocks in diameter

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    5. Re:Not so fast, North Korea by H0p313ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hm, looking at the worldwide map, much of the US doesn't have electricity (much less healthcare?) either...

      Note that Baffin Island which is mostly north of the arctic circle and is mostly composed of barren (but rather beautiful) rock and tundra with a wopping population of 11,000 people (giving it a population density of 0.02 /km2 )has more bright points than North Korea which has over 24 million people and a population density of 198.3/km2.

      I'll leave interpretation of the actual meaning of these facts as an exercise for the student.

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  15. In all seriousness.... by tverbeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In all seriousness, these are warning signs that things are going to get very nasty in the Korean Peninsula very soon.

    When a totalitarian regime plays the "we are being victimized by the rest of the world" card in their nationalistic propaganda, the people will generally believe it and will unite in support of the leader, sometimes for decades. But when a regime tries to stoke the nationalistic fires by playing the "we are the greatest country in the world" card and making impossible promises of how gloriously successful they will be in the coming years, promises that will very quickly be seen by everyone as the bullshit they are, something's gonna happen and it's gonna happen soon.

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  16. North Korean joke by sageres · · Score: 5, Funny

    At an art museum in Europe, an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a North Korean stand before a painting of Adam and Eve holding an apple in the Garden of Eden. The Englishman says: "The man has something tasty to eat and is eager to share it with the woman. Based on that, I would conclude that they're rather obviously English..." The Frenchman says: "I disagree. They're walking around entirely naked, so they must be French..." The North Korean says: "There is no doubt in my mind that they're North Korean. They have no clothes to wear, barely anything to eat, and they still think they're in heaven!"

  17. It's got electrolytes by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's got what slaves crave.

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  18. Still won't cure stupidity by kiehlster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They could really benefit from a drink that makes people aware of how outlandish they sound.

  19. It's the anti-soju! by Message · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they've basically developed the anti-soju! sweet

  20. Simple explanation on how this works: by kheldan · · Score: 2, Informative

    You drink it, and it kills you. If you're dead, you don't age anymore, and dead things technically can't contract diseases.

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  21. Re:5G Phone by CarpetShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry. Even if that happens, Jobs will come out with a 4G, coal-powered phone, and still convince everyone it's worth queuing all night and paying twice as much for.

  22. A cautions hint: Comprade Kim is about to die by sageres · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have no doubt in my mind that this is a hint of opressed press: The Great Comrade Kim Jong Il is old, sick and soon to die. And here is a reason: in 1952-53 when Stalin was on his deathbed, official press maintained that "The Father of All Nations" was in the greatest health of all. However, sometime around that time, hints appeared all over the press, such an article that was published in Pravda that claimed that there is a rumor that Georgians live way past 130 years. The average Soviet people would then read it, conclude that it is impossible, and then realize what the paper really meant to say "between the lines".

  23. It's a feature!! by CubicleView · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It, much higher than quality cosmetics in anti-oxidation capacity, is efficacious for different skin diseases, including allergic dermatitis. It also makes skin fair. "The drink has no side-effect."

    It's a fruit juice drink that turns your skin white, but has no side effects....eh?

    1. Re:It's a feature!! by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

      Sadly, this miracle whitener arrived too late for Michael Jackson.

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  24. Better than toast by Badmovies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last month they announced their fusion breakthrough, and now they have a super drink. One can only imagine what wonders they will reveal in July, perhaps self buttering toast.

    Bah. Wake me up when North Korea announces that they are going to release "Duke Nukem Forever."

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  25. We laugh by DaMattster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We laugh at the ridiculous claims of the famous "pigmy" leader's regieme whilst falling victim to the same scam in our own backyard. Look at the weight loss scam products that are out there that have spawned almost a billion dollar industry. It would seem that these shady product vendors bring a product to market long enough to make a large sum of money before being discovered as, at best inefffective and at worst, outright fraud. I find it funny that we laugh at the "Super Drink" while we become easily duped by advertisements on TV that claim super weight loss.

    1. Re:We laugh by sorak · · Score: 2, Insightful

      We laugh at the ridiculous claims of the famous "pigmy" leader's regieme whilst falling victim to the same scam in our own backyard. Look at the weight loss scam products that are out there that have spawned almost a billion dollar industry. It would seem that these shady product vendors bring a product to market long enough to make a large sum of money before being discovered as, at best inefffective and at worst, outright fraud. I find it funny that we laugh at the "Super Drink" while we become easily duped by advertisements on TV that claim super weight loss.

      This is why FDA approval is a good thing.

  26. Re:Drug test there world cup team! by Aaron+B+Lingwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Drug test there world cup team!

    I believe their already doing this over they're.

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  27. Oops, ment to reply to you parent. by scorp1us · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, lets look at the Populatation denistiy stats:
    NK 199 people per sqkm
    US 32 people per sqkm
    SK: 489 people per sqkm

    Despite NK having 6 times the population density.... they manage to have only one respecible dot. Mean while, there's SK, with 2.5 times the population of NK. And they have dots everywhere...

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