# N Korea develops new 'super drink' **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062 "2010-06-05T15:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/1 "2010-06-05T15:11:16Z")
\*North Korea has developed a “super drink” that, it says, can multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing. The secretive state’s official news agency, KCNA, says the drink contains 60 kinds of “microelements” extracted from more than 30 species of plants. \* 😉 Story from[BBC.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10237314.stm) ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/2 "2010-06-05T15:17:32Z")
They’re only just now getting Mountain Dew? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/3 "2010-06-05T15:55:31Z")
They have 30 different kinds of plants left in N. Korea? Wow:) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/4 "2010-06-05T16:18:56Z")
First Fusion, then this, they only need the cure for common cold now and the world will be theirs!, WAKE UP! I, for one, welcome our new underfed Overlords ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/5 "2010-06-05T16:22:41Z")
Ya know, when cells start multiplying in people’s brains usually they call it brain cancer. And all these “microelements” just sounds like fancy talk for “dirt” but that’s just me and my opinion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/6 "2010-06-05T18:12:34Z")
It also removes all of your “acid effete matters”, whatever those are. I’m guessing they’re similar to free radicals, but…pansier? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/7 "2010-06-05T18:48:58Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > And all these “microelements” just sounds like fancy talk for “dirt” but that’s just me and my opinion. 😃 \ And that’s why plants crave it. \ ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/8 "2010-06-05T19:50:37Z")
_ **MICROELEMENTS** _ WOW I’m sold 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/9 "2010-06-05T20:01:22Z")
So, they’re like regular elements, just…smaller, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/10 "2010-06-05T20:44:18Z")
Here is North Korea’s News Agency’s original English report: [Anti-oxidation Drink Made](http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/11 "2010-06-05T20:45:18Z")
Shoot. They seem to avoid allowing links to the stories directly. Anyone know how to get around it? ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/12 "2010-06-05T20:46:42Z")
I was going to post something mildly funny, but it has nothing on the above posts 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/13 "2010-06-05T21:52:30Z")
They have a trade fair in North Korea? They have _trade_ in North Korea? ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/14 "2010-06-05T22:15:53Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Shoot. > > They seem to avoid allowing links to the stories directly. Anyone know how to get around it? Looks like if I right-click the link in Firefox and select _Copy Link Location_ I can get the link to the specific article - let’s see if that [worked](http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201006/news04/20100604-12ee.html). ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/15 "2010-06-05T22:29:24Z")
> [@indian](#): > > \*North Korea has developed a “super drink” that, it says, can multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing. It’s called beer. The Egyptians developed it 5,000 years ago. > [@indian](#): > > The secretive state’s official news agency, KCNA, says the drink contains 60 kinds of “microelements” extracted from more than 30 species of plants. \* More than 30 different plants? Let’s see: some 2-row barley, 4-row barley, a little wheat, maybe some rye or triticale, 3 varieties of bittering hops, 3 varieties of aromatic hops, some [Irish moss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrus_crispus#Uses)… I don’t know what kind of beer it is, but I’m having trouble coming up with 30 plants. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/16 "2010-06-05T22:38:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Here is North Korea’s News Agency’s original English report: > > [Anti-oxidation Drink Made](http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm) Wait, the North Koreans made a drink that’s anti-occidental? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/17 "2010-06-05T22:38:52Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:15, topic:542062”] It’s called beer. The Egyptians developed it 5,000 years ago. [/QUOTE] Wait till they learn whiskey can make a man bulletproof… ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/18 "2010-06-05T23:06:55Z")
Maybe all those famines happened because they were trying to fertilize crops with North Korean Brawndo? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/19 "2010-06-05T23:43:17Z")
Well, it _DOES_ have what North Koreans crave, after all… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062/20 "2010-06-06T00:15:33Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > They have a trade fair in North Korea? > > They have _trade_ in North Korea? From what I’ve [heard](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html), they trade in really good counterfeit American hundred dollar bills, counterfeit Viagra and very pure methamphetamines. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-korea-develops-new-super-drink/542062.md?page=2)