North Koreans encouraged to eat ‘nutritious’ dog-meat soup during sweltering summer heat

North Korea has been grappling with record heat this week, prompting officials to recommend dog-meat soup as a way to cool off. State media promoted the concotion as a traditional summer health remedy as Pyongyang reached a sweltering 98 degrees Thursday, the highest recorded temperature since the capital city began tracking the weather. Ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a health feature on Aug. 2 where a Pyongyang General Hospital doctor recommended a myriad of “nutritious foods” to help North Koreans stay cool — including watermelon, cucumbers, fish porridge and mung beans. The newspaper, which devoted an entire separate feature...