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North Korea, running scared from Ebola, bans foreigners from marathon

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Considering the DPRK biological weapon laboratories have been working for years to reanimate the smallpox and Spanish influenza viruses, humans should be more afraid of diseases coming out of NK than the Kim clique is with Ebola going in. Keep your borders closed fatso. Humanity wants nothing to do with you anyway.

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The North Korean runner will set a new world's record for a marathon of that length, instantaneously completing the course through the guidance of the Dear Leader.

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So long as they don't declare it international news when an NK runner wins the marathon, who cares?

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How could it have been an international marathon?

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It"s ME: Exactly what I was saying. Otherwise, a marathon in NK is no news at all.

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This just narrowed the field to about five.

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Probably to hide that it's run on a forward-moving conveyor walkway to highlight the fast times of North Korean runners really are

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A marathon runner burns about 2600 calories per race. That has to be like a year's caloric intake for the average North Korean?

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Pyongyang, the isolated and secretive country’s capital, has held an international marathon most years since 1981 but last year was the first time foreigners had been allowed to compete.

I don't understand this sentence. How could it be an international event if internationals were never allowed to participate till last year?

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I wonder if this event will be televised from start to finish?

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