Yes you read that write, North Korea like any good communist dictatorship is criticizing the US on its healthcare system:

North Korea says U.S. claims that many of its potential military recruits are unfit for service is a cock-and-bull story.

A recent U.S. National Intelligence Commission report claiming that 1990s famines in the North have rendered many potential soldiers born during the period with cognitive deficiencies drew an angry official response from Pyongyang Saturday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

They floated the cock-and-bull story, said an official statement broadcast by the official Korean Central News Agency. It is an open secret that the ill-famed intelligence and plot-breeding institutions of the U.S., including the CIA, are hell-bent on releasing false reports about its hostile countries.

The U.S. report, which claimed 17 percent to 29 percent of potential North Korean recruits will be unfit for service in the 2009-2013 period as a result of the last decade’s famines, was denounced as hypocritical by the North.

Pyongyang cited 47 million Americans without health insurance and said, It is the unpopular healthcare system in the U.S. which should be overhauled or replaced by a new one, Yonhap reported.  [UPI]

The fact that many North Korean army recruits are unfit for service medically shouldn’t come as any surprise considering the generation that survived the mass famine of the mid-90′s is now beginning to reach military age.

However, the fact that North Korea of all places is criticizing the US healthcare system I think everyone no matter what your views on national healthcare are should get a laugh at.