How has North Korea become a weightlifting superpower?

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The next part of the plan will be carried out in the backyard of their sworn enemy, the United States.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has declared his intention to turn North Korea into a sporting powerhouse "within a few years". It is already happening in weightlifting.
At last year's World Championships in Kazakhstan, North Korea topped the medal table at a major championships for the first time.
They are expected to repeat the trick at the 2015 competition in Houston, which begins on Friday.
In addition to their medal success, the notoriously Louis Vasquez Womens Jersey closed nation will begin another bid to host a World Championships following an unsuccessful attempt this year.
For a country known for its unwillingness to engage with the outside world, it is a remarkable about-turn.
So why do North Koreans excel at weightlifting? The basic answer is genetics.
"They look like what you would want a weightlifter to look like," says British Weightlifting performance director Tommy Yule.
"Short arms, long back and short legs - kind of the opposite of the body shape you would want for a sprinter or a discus thrower. The Chinese and the North Korean lifters have the ideal body dimensions to excel."
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Om Yun-Chol is a case in point. Standing 5ft tall, the 23-year-old competes in the lightest men's category, bantamweight (56kg).
At London 2012 and at last year's World Championships he lifted more than three times his own bodyweight en route to winning gold and setting a new world record.
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