WBAL

Sushi in Pyongyang: Japanese chef opens rare restaurant

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Sushi in Pyongyang? At a restaurant run by a Japanese sushi chef famous for working for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il? Kenji Fujimoto has opened his sushi ...
WTSP

13 North Korean restaurant workers defect en masse to South Korea

A group of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant in an unidentified country defected together to South Korea this week, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday. The South Korean government ...
NPR

North Korean cold noodle master brings northern tastes to Seoul

SEOUL — Italy has its pasta salad, and China its cold sesame noodles. But there are few places where cold noodles are held in as high esteem as in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Naengmyeon, as ...
Reuters

At North Korean hub in China, uncertainty looms for Pyongyang-backed businesses

SHENYANG, China (Reuters) - North Korean-owned businesses such as the Chilbosan Hotel in Shenyang, the biggest city in northeastern China, face an uncertain future as United Nations sanctions against ...
Reuters

REFILE-North Korean restaurants: like the country, suspicious and in crisis

JAKARTA/BEIJING, April 14 (Reuters) - At a North Korean state-run restaurant in the Indonesian capital Jakarta earlier this week, the usual song and dance dinner performance by the waitresses was ...