On Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported the Pugang Pharmaceutical Company had developed the urgently-needed panacea in the form of Kumdang-2.
According to the official Kumdang-2 website, “Kumdang-2 injection is a herbal medicine extracted from Kaesong Koryo insam (ginseng) cultivated in Kaesong DPR Korea […] It contains insam saccharides, light rare earth elements, a micro-quantities of gold and platinum.”
The website also claims, millions of people globally have benefitted from Kumdang-2, which means “golden sugar” in Korean.
“The opinions of millions of patients, all of which have been collected over the last 23 years since May, 1989. [A]t the moment, as well as clinical records submitted hundreds of hospitals, medical groups, institutions and epidemiological institutions Korea and from 30 different countries, and reviews of millions of patients,” notes the site.
The creators also say they have won numerous prestigious awards and noteworthy media mentions in North Korea, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and “many, many other news agencies.”
In addition to curing cancer which claims millions of lives annually, Kumdang-2 creators say it also helps to heal broken bones, disabilities and revive comatose patients.
“According to the clinic records, there have been many cases, where some seriously injured men being in state of coma breathing last breaths revived to this world after its injection every 4 hours, 6-8 ampoules each time,” says the website.
This isn’t the first time North Korea has made wacky news headlines. In 2012, the KCNA reported archeologists found a unicorn’s lair in North Korea.
“Archeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).”
