North Korea claims to have done what no man has done before: discover the cure for MERS, Ebola, SARS, and AIDS. According to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean scientists have discovered a Kumdang-2 injection drug derived from ginseng that can not only cure the aforementioned afflictions, but also prevent them. The world’s response? "Yeah, right."
Not only did North Korea provide zero proof, it isn’t even the first time the Hermit Kingdom has attempted to debut this exact drug as a miracle cure, The Associated Press reports. Back in 2006 and 2013, North Korea bragged about the "strong immune reviver" drug amidst the outbreak of bird flu.
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