North Korea has one of the best health care systems.

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This seems more like it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pa...669141.stm

Based on interviews with aid workers and North Korean defectors, the report says hospitals lack essential equipment and drugs, which forces the sick to treat themselves with medicines bought from markets. Major operations are routinely conducted without anaesthetic, while malnutrition has paved the way for a tuberculosis epidemic.

"North Korea has failed to provide for the most basic health and survival needs of its people," said Catherine Baber, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific region. "This is especially true of those who are too poor to pay for medical care."

According to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures, North Korea spent just ¢50 (32p) per person a year on healthcare – a tenth as much as Burma.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/ju...is-amnesty

and this says its all for show.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24...91380.html