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Subin Kim
Subin Kim is an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. He translated Lankov's The Real North Korea into Korean and is a reserve air defense artillery lieutenant in the Republic of Korea Air Force.
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News Italian food’s popularity booms in North Korea, waitress saysNortherners have also developed popular indigenous twists such as kimchi pizza, crown daisy pizza Spaghetti and pizza are so popular in North Korea that even street vendors serve Italian food, a worker in the first Italian restaurant in North Korea said in an interview. Ri Bong Nyo, a server at an Italian restaurant in Kwangbok Street, Pyongyang, went on to praise Italian food's nutritional value while talking with North Korea’s weekly Tongil Sinbo, published last Saturday. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |