Even by the standards of news about North Korea, this story is bizarre: Two North Korean doctors working in Cambodia died over the weekend, apparently after they got so drunk that their wives, also doctors, injected them with some mystery liquid to counteract the alcohol.
Both men then had heart attacks, according to the Phnom Penh Post.
Now, we're used to stories about strange deaths in North Korea. But this case concerns North Koreans who were almost certainly among the 50,000-plus citizens outside the country earning money for leader Kim Jong Un's regime. According to the Cambodian news report, local police were called to an address in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kork district, a clinic that also serves as home to the North Korean doctors. There, they found a dozen North Koreans and the two dead doctors, identified as An Hyong Chan, 56, and Chol Ri Mun, 50.
The police were immediately suspicious but apparently had their concerns allayed.
"According to the autopsy report, the victims both died of a heart attack," local police chief Khan Khun Tith told the newspaper. The men had been drinking heavily and were running very high temperatures when their wives found them, according to the report.