Bye bye bunnies
Passport first blogged this story back in January, when it looked like North Korean officials had seized upon dog-sized rabbits as the cure for their country’s persistent food shortages. Turns out they may have just wanted a meal: A German rabbit breeder who sold 12 rabbits to North Korea to breed giant bunnies said he ...
Passport first blogged this story back in January, when it looked like North Korean officials had seized upon dog-sized rabbits as the cure for their country's persistent food shortages. Turns out they may have just wanted a meal:
Passport first blogged this story back in January, when it looked like North Korean officials had seized upon dog-sized rabbits as the cure for their country’s persistent food shortages. Turns out they may have just wanted a meal:
A German rabbit breeder who sold 12 rabbits to North Korea to breed giant bunnies said he won’t be exporting any more to the reclusive communist country because he suspects they have been eaten.
Breeder Karl Szmolinsky was supposed to visit North Korea after Easter to consult about breeding the rabbits, but North Korean officials abruptly canceled his trip. Szmolinsky believes that the reason given, that officials were unhappy with media coverage of their interest in the bunnies, is just a cover story:
That’s an assumption, not an assertion,” he added. “But they’re not getting any more.”
For a country facing severe food shortages, that’s bad news.
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