The physical health of North Korea’s soldiers does not appear to have improved much in the past two decades.
A North Korean soldier made a brazen blitz into South Korea Monday amidst a barrage of bullets in the Joint Security Area at the Demilitarized Zone. His comrades fired around 40 rounds, hitting the young 20-year-old staff sergeant five times. The man was airlifted to a South Korean medical facility for surgery, but the operation was complicated by the presence of “enormous parasites” in the man’s gut. Doctors said the roundworms found in the soldier simply aren’t seen in people in developed countries.
“We discovered parasites that are simply not found in people in this country,” Dr. Lee Kook-jong, the trauma surgeon providing care to the wounded soldier, explained, “I haven’t seen them in my 20 years as a doctor except in textbooks.”
As it turns out, South Korean medical personnel were pulling parasites like this out of North Korean soldiers just over two decades ago.
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