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https://www.dailynk.com/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/DNKF00014007_List.png250200North Korean border patrol guards in some areas of Ryanggang Province are busy searching for and capturing an unseasonably high number of snakes at the behest of the authorities, who claim Seoul’s spy agency deliberately released them in the region. “From early this month, border patrol units received orders to capture snakes before they crawl […]