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all i see is - less population - no traffic - clear air and very less pollution - farm and live easy - walk and cycle and stay fit - great childhood of enjoying countryside

Overall, they are 117th in life expectancy with 65years+. My greatest and largest democracy as well offers just the same.

Don't get any of this living in the greatest democracy's top Urban city !

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Are their life expectancy statistics accurate? How do we know?

I suspect most statistics about North Korea are either invented by the North Korean government, or else they are mere educated guesses by outsiders. (I'd imagine various intelligence agencies likely have more accurate educated guesses than those that are commonly available, but those guesses will be kept secret in order to protect the confidential sources used to inform them.)

farm and easy life - in reality often famine and extremely oppressive regimes. wtf are you writing about?

I'm definitely not writing about wtf

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