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Activists send winter socks to North Korea

Activists in South Korea on Saturday sent winter socks carried by gas-filled balloons across the border to the impoverished North, where they can easily be exchanged for food.

Activists in South Korea on Saturday sent winter socks carried by gas-filled balloons across the border to the impoverished North, where they can easily be exchanged for food.

One pair of socks is thought to fetch about 22 pounds (10 kilos) of corn -- enough to sustain a person for a month in the hungry communist state.

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