North Korea claimed Friday that it has developed a wearable device that uses a "jewel" to convert the sun's rays into a photo-electromagnetic field to purify blood and heal a range of serious diseases.
| "Cures arthritis, bursitis, neuritis, neuralgia and halitosis! Only five dollars a jewel! Step right up, folks!" |
The device, worn as a wristband or toe-tag ring, was tested on more than 500 starving patients, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. Within hours, it cured 98.8 percent of the patients of a range of conditions, including blood clots in the brain, heart attacks, blocked arteries, the report said. It didn't elaborate.
This can't be true — no one in North Korea has a cholesterol level high enough to get blocked arteries!
"It is much better than medicinal therapy, dietary and exercise remedies," KCNA said. The country remains the world's most isolated country. Its claims cannot be independently verified and usually aren't. North Korea's communist government is cash-strapped and has been demonstrated to accused of resorting to selling white skag narcotics and missiles to raise money. Alternative health remedies are believed to be popular in the country as health care is poor.
Eating is popular too, but you don't see much of that in North Korea, either. |