![South Korean soldiers check trucks carrying A(H1N1) flu medication as they leave for North Korea at a checkpoint near the inter-Korean transit office in Paju yesterday. South Korea sent medication for the new flu to North Korea, its first government-level assistance to its impoverished communist neighbor in nearly two years. The banner read “Support goods to cure North Korea’s swine flu”. [AFP]](http://joongangdaily.joins.com/_data/photo/2009/12/18210024.jpg)
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December 19th, 2009 at 2:02 pm Picture of the Day: Swine Flu Aid Heads to North Korea
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9:23 am on December 19th, 2009 1
Fascinating. You'd think they wouldn't have such problems given their are jails not as tightly locked down as DPRK!
10:34 am on December 19th, 2009 2
What a crock. I suppose next month they will be sending truckloads of "Global Warming Aid".
I wonder what is really in those trucks.
1:07 pm on December 19th, 2009 3
Whatever it is, the North Korean government will find a way to profit from it, politically and/or financially.
1:30 pm on December 19th, 2009 4
Well, at least the Chinese on the border will be vaccinated.
11:55 am on December 20th, 2009 5
Can't we just let that cest pool of a country collapse? Every time we save it, we just prolong the misery of the people.
12:06 pm on December 20th, 2009 6
Who's 'we'? Its China that keeps propping North Korea up. Yes, the US and South korea as well as the UN do their share as well. But its mostly China.
You are correct in that it is a cess pool of a country, however a cess pool that noone wants spilling into their back yard.
5:32 pm on January 4th, 2010 7
If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.