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N Korea 'develops special noodle'
North Korean scientists have developed a new kind of noodle that
delays feelings of hunger, a Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper
has re****ted.
The noodles were made from corn and soybeans, the Choson ****nbo
said.
They left people feeling fuller longer and represented a
technological breakthrough, the newspaper said.
North Korea is dependent on foreign food aid. Last month the UN
warned that residents were experiencing their worst food
shortages in a decade.
But the communist country remains reluctant to allow experts to
fully *****s the scale of the problem or give them adequate
access to deliver aid.
UN warnings
According to the newspaper, which is seen as closely linked to
the Pyongyang leader****p, the new noodles have twice as much
protein and fives times as much fat as ordinary noodles.
"When you consume ordinary noodles (made from wheat or corn), you
may soon feel your stomach empty. But this soybean noodle delays
such a feeling of hunger," it said on its website.
The noodles would be available soon across North Korea, the
newspaper said.
An estimated one million people starved to death in North Korea
in the late 1990s after natural disasters and government
mismanagement devastated the country's economy.
In July, the World Food Programme warned that six million people
were in urgent need of food aid, following severe flooding last
year.
Most households had cut their food intake and more people are
scavenging for wild foods, WFP *****sors found.
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