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A booming prostitution trade may be
contributing to a growing number of STD cases in North Korea, an online
publication monitoring the impoverished country reports. According to News
Focus, the regime had directed Pyongyang’s dermatology hospital to expand its
capacity to treat STD patients.
The emergence of a market system has
created a newly wealthy demographic in North Korea. Recent visitors to the
secretive state have noted that restaurants, massage parlors, and bathhouses
run or sanctioned by party officials are popping up in Pyongyang. During the
famine of the 1990s, some North Koreans turned to sex work as a way to earn
cash.
Meanwhile, Radio Free Asia reports
that gonorrhea and other conditions could be spreading through sex between
female soldiers and government officials. Citing a source working for a US
non-governmental group, RFA said more generals have been requesting penicillin
to treat the STD.
Last year, reports emerged that
health authorities in North Korea were dealing with the spread of syphilis.
Local officials were directed to administer examinations and treatments in
response.
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