North Korea has one of the best health care systems.

[Ryantology]

It's unfortunate that when I tell someone I'm a socialist, chances are that they'll think I'm like this guy.

[Anomalocaris]

North Korean health care is so good that Little Kim's uncle lived to be 67 before being executed. Even some of the poor people are in such robust good health that they had non-zero chance of surviving the famine, the malnuetrition, and the labor camps.

I mean any health care system that can do that must be something else.

[Doubting Thomas]

I really, really can't see the NK government spending money on health care when it won't even feed their people. Except Fat Boy Kim, that is. He's not missed too many meals. The trouble is that any & all food aid that goes to the country goes straight to the ruling elite and the military, and if there just happens to be any left over it goes to the people.

[Angrboda]

Good Friends, a Seoul-based welfare group with contacts in the North, said in February that 2,000 people had starved to death there this winter.

With success stories like this, who needs enemas?

[Doubting Thomas]

That's only 2,000 people they know of. I'm betting if that number is anywhere near accurate, it's probably higher.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

There are a lot of videos on youtube where people sneakily shot their trips to NK and you can see people scavenging grass. There are like very pretty buildings right at the side of the roads but when seen from the top (I think it was from their hotel room) behind those buildings are dilapidated ruins where actual people live in. And there's one where they went to the hospital and it was completely empty, and the electricity went out periodically (no generators came on, obviously). Imagine if the electricity went out in our hospitals, so many people would die! So the guy asked why there weren't any patients, and the doctor said the patients came in the morning and had left and if he wanted to see any he'd need the patients' permissions, which he couldn't get without seeing the patients. There are a few videos and they all show the same thing because the trips are very structured, so I'll find that very hard to fake. I'll stay with my country's healthcare, thank you very much.

[Lemonvariable72]

Chan later accepted that what she saw in Pyongyang "might not be representative of the rest of the country

No shit sherlock.

[EgoRaptor]

The title is true, provided you are Kim-Jong-un. Considering that no one else has food, I find it hard to imagine that anyone else has heathcare.

[Tiberius]

There are a lot of videos on youtube where people sneakily shot their trips to NK and you can see people scavenging grass. There are like very pretty buildings right at the side of the roads but when seen from the top (I think it was from their hotel room) behind those buildings are dilapidated ruins where actual people live in. And there's one where they went to the hospital and it was completely empty, and the electricity went out periodically (no generators came on, obviously). Imagine if the electricity went out in our hospitals, so many people would die! So the guy asked why there weren't any patients, and the doctor said the patients came in the morning and had left and if he wanted to see any he'd need the patients' permissions, which he couldn't get without seeing the patients. There are a few videos and they all show the same thing because the trips are very structured, so I'll find that very hard to fake. I'll stay with my country's healthcare, thank you very much.

I believe you are talking about the BBC journalist John Sweeney, who managed to film inside the country for "North Korea Uncovered" whilst posing as a student visitor.

He's also the guy who pissed off the Church of Scientology a number of times with his investigations into them.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

There are a lot of videos on youtube where people sneakily shot their trips to NK and you can see people scavenging grass. There are like very pretty buildings right at the side of the roads but when seen from the top (I think it was from their hotel room) behind those buildings are dilapidated ruins where actual people live in. And there's one where they went to the hospital and it was completely empty, and the electricity went out periodically (no generators came on, obviously). Imagine if the electricity went out in our hospitals, so many people would die! So the guy asked why there weren't any patients, and the doctor said the patients came in the morning and had left and if he wanted to see any he'd need the patients' permissions, which he couldn't get without seeing the patients. There are a few videos and they all show the same thing because the trips are very structured, so I'll find that very hard to fake. I'll stay with my country's healthcare, thank you very much.

I believe you are talking about the BBC journalist John Sweeney, who managed to film inside the country for "North Korea Uncovered" whilst posing as a student visitor.

He's also the guy who pissed off the Church of Scientology a number of times with his investigations into them.

Yea, I think one of them was a journalist. I hear journalists are no longer allowed to enter? Not too sure about that. There's also a tourist who shot his trip and he kept getting yelled at by his tour guide when he took his camera out, but he didn't get as much propaganda as the journalist and wasn't shown "the best of DPRK" like the journalist was.

Here's the video if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULO3i5Xra0