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jtuck004

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Fri Jun 26, 2015, 08:12 AM Jun 2015

"We were told that any grass that rabbits eat is edible," [View all]


Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Even a simple piece of fruit was unfamiliar to Lee So-yeon when she fled North Korea seven years ago. She had never seen an orange. So when she came across one at a South Korean market, she bit into it like an apple -- peel and all.

During the famine of the 1990s, Lee was forced to eat grass from the mountains to survive.

"We were told that any grass that rabbits eat is edible," she says. "So we picked any grass we could find that wasn't poisonous and mixed it with rice, or used it to make grass porridge.

"Children were suffering from malnutrition. Their stomachs were very swollen. ... Their whole faces were covered with fine hair and their hair was a very light brown color instead of black. Their arms and legs were so skinny they looked like tree branches."
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/world/north-korea-drought/index.html

I can't help thinking this might be a public service announcement in Kansas or Texas, from what I read about their food stamps.

Do all these republicans want to be on pictures that show their reverence to the ideals of kim what's his name?
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