North Korea Touts ‘Exceptional’ Health Benefits of Consuming Black Swans Amid Crippling Food Shortage

North Korea Touts ‘Exceptional’ Health Benefits of Consuming Black Swans Amid Crippling Food Shortage
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 29, 2021. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
Katabella Roberts
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North Korea has started touting the “exceptional” health benefits of consuming black swans after breeding them, while also farming rabbits as the country battles a crippling food shortage, according to state media.

“Black swan meat is delicious and has medicinal value,” the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in an article published Monday.

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