North Korea is claiming to have achieved a feat unreachable by most of science's greatest minds. On Friday, the nation claimed it has found the cure for deadly diseases like MERS, SARS, Ebola, and AIDS, according to The Associated Press.

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Since there was no proof of this claim, it is expected to provoke skepticism worldwide.

Pyongyang said they have been keeping the solution for most of the world's health problems for 19 years.

According to pro-North Korean Web site Minjok Tongshin, the drug called Kumdang-2 was originally created in 1996.

The official Korean Central News Agency is not to be considered as one of the world's most trusted sources in news, according to The Washington Post, but that notion did not deter the site from featuring scientists from the Pugang Pharmaceutical Company who claimed to have developed this miracle drug.

Kumdang-2 is made from ginseng, which is grown from a fertilizer composed of rare-earth elements.

It even contains "micro-quantities of gold and platinum," according to the drug's web site, which declared, "Everyone has the right to be healthy!" in both English and Russian.

Injection of the drug provides a "highly effective" prevention and cure "for the MERS virus and other contagious diseases," according to the Pyongyang-based agency.

"Malicious virus infections like SARS, Ebola and MERS are diseases that are related to immune systems, so they can be easily treated by Kumdang-2 injection drug, which is a strong immune reviver," stated KCNA while also claiming the drug can cure AIDS.

The drug's Web site also features a photo of Kumdang-2, which showed it contained in glass vials inside a golden box.

"As a strong immune-activator, the injection has been recognised to prevent different malignant epidemics," the Web site quoted Dr. Jon Sung-hun, director of the pharmaceutical company.

Kumdang-2, which also means "golden sugar" in Korean, has protected its users from contracting any infectious diseases even if they have been in the infected countries, KCNA reported. "This means that Kumdang-2 is effective in coping with the MERS virus."

Apart from North Korea, the drug can only be bought in Russia.

For four months, North Korea has shut its borders earlier in the year, enforcing strict Ebola controls. They later lifted the restrictions.

The nation is known to be struggling with several deadly diseases including tuberculosis. Other respiratory infections are the country's most common causes of death, according to the World Health Organization.

Kumdang-2 has also been mentioned by North Korea during the 2006 and 2013 bird flu outbreaks, according to RT.

Meanwhile, in the South, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has killed over two dozen people and has continued to sicken more than 160 people since the outbreak began in May. MERS still has neither cure nor vaccine.

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