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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Breakin' News | Present Kim Jong Il With His Nobel



How to stop the famine in some parts of North Korea and other Asian areas? Rethink diplomacy to ease economic sanctions? Reduce military spending and invest in agriculture? Cloning or other genetic/technological advances? Nope. Giant rabbits.


Corbis / AP

From Der Spiegel:

An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.

It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.

Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients."

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This entry has 37 comments: (Add your own)
  • #37 Comment from spellboundgirl3 
    1/19/07 6:54 AM Permalink
    I THINK ITS SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • #36 Comment from allduckslaugh 
    1/19/07 3:10 AM Permalink
    KIM DONG JONG IL NEEDS TO GO ON A RABBIT DIET HIMSELF.

    I HEAR YOU CAN STILL STARVE TO DEATH EATING RABBIT.

    NO FAT AND THE MEAT IS WORTHLESS AS FAR AS NUTRITION........

    BUT THAT IS WHAT I HEAR...........

    AND CROPS ????  WHAT ABOUT CROPS ?????



    BY THE WAY...........STOP SPENDING MONEY ON WMDS AND PUT THAT TOWARD FEEDING YOUR PEOPLE..........YOU DUMB JOCK IL !!!!
  • #35 Comment from mmichon 
    1/19/07 2:51 AM Permalink
    Fry Kim Jong!...Save the innocent bunny!
  • #34 Comment from helgal427 
    1/18/07 11:24 PM Permalink
    (Bush looking through microscope):
    No matter how you look at it - it's tunnel vision all the way!!!
  • #33 Comment from tymicha3 
    1/18/07 10:44 PM Permalink
    What a wabit! Holey Moley!
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