"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:412A2C9F.ED810CA6@yahoo.co.jp...
> Musashi wrote:
>
> > "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:cgd94s$geq$2$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> > > "Eric Takabayashi" wrote ...
> > > >
> > > > Japanese news reports would make it seem that the occasional
shipload of
> > delayed
> > > > North Korean sailors (due to shipwreck, or waiting for permission to
> > dock or
> > > > refueling for the trip home) choose to go home without exception,
> > despite seeing
> > > > some of the world outside.
> > >
> > > Maybe not so unlikely.  There's a lot of concern about growth
retardation
> > due to
> > > poor nutrition in North Korea - a couple of soldiers whose boat was
blown
> > into
> > > South Korea's waters by a storm decided to return because they were
> > intimidated
> > > by the height of South Korean women.
> > >
> > > Now don't do anything awkward like ask for a link because I just went
back
> > to
> > > the site I read it on and I couldn't find the right search terms.
> >
> > You are joking, right?  Thats the funniest thing I've read today.
>
> I also read such a report at the time, though I did not remember until he
> mentioned it.
>

Wow..so it is real?
I knew that Norh Korea has the problem with children being undernourished
and
showing stunted growth, but I had no idea that there were adults showing
such signs.