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Desperate North Koreans hunting animals to edge of extinction

Hungry and impoverished North Koreans are hunting, eating and selling animals from tigers to badgers, threatening the survival of endangered species, a new study has found.

A team of British and Norwegian scientists concluded that the North Korean government and black marketeers profit from the trade of wildlife products for food, skins and furs, and the sale of bones, paws and dried organs for use in traditional remedies.

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