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North Korea has developed a special hunger-delaying noodle to battle food shortages and hunger, according to Japanese pro-Pyongyang newspaper Chonson Sinbon. The noodles, which are made of corn and soybeans, are reported as having "twice as much protein and five times as much fat as ordinary noodles."...
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