Saturday, June 05, 2010

North Korea hails new 'anti-ageing super drink'

North Korea has developed a "super drink" that, it says, can multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing. The secretive state's official news agency, KCNA, says the drink contains 60 kinds of "microelements" extracted from more than 30 species of plants.

It attracted "much interest from Chinese, German and other businessmen" at a trade fair in Pyongyang last month, the agency reports. It was developed by a joint venture fruit juice company. KCNA says: "It, with effects of both preventive and curative treatment, helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells.



"It also protects skin from wrinkles and black spots and prevents such geriatric diseases as cerebral haemorrhage, myocardium and brain infarction by removing acid effete matters in time. "It, much higher than quality cosmetics in anti-oxidation capacity, is efficacious for different skin diseases, including allergic dermatitis. It also makes skin fair. The drink has no side-effect."

The agency quotes a company manager, Jong Song Ho, as saying the drink has "proved efficacious among workers of such industrial establishments as thermal power station and smeltery and at medical institutions".

6 comments:

E said...

And let me guess, there leader has been taking it since he was born and the Koreans wants to start trading out of the embargo. I think that it does, double the koreans life expectancy….that the poor people living there finally have something to eat

Anonymous said...

Let ME guess that the leader is about to look "a bit different" and the reply to "hey wait a minute, that doesn't look like Kim Jung Il" will be "sure it is, he's been drinking the wonder drink, now go back to adoring your dear leader".

Zav said...

"There" leader?

Insolitus said...

Unnecessary, Zav.

rikster said...

But does it cure the 'see through hair' problem...?

L said...

Why would the North Korean government want anything that could multiply brain cells?  Their people might smarten up and realize that they're living in a giant cult!