North Korea eyes German BSE-scare cows

North Korea has offered to eat the cows Germany plans to slaughter as a result of the BSE scare.

Officials at the Ministry of Unification say their starving people would be happy to eat the 400,000 cows.

The request has been passed on to the German government by an aid agency.

Around three million people have starved to death in the country since 1995.

Beef sales in Germany have slumped by 60% since the scare broke - even though only 28 cases of BSE have been reported in the country compared to more than 100,000 in the UK.