{"id":73923,"date":"2016-04-10T02:37:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73923"},"modified":"2025-03-08T00:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:49:53","slug":"look-north-koreas-restaurants-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/10\/look-north-koreas-restaurants-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at North Korea\u2019s restaurants overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73924\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/North-Korea-restaurant.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/North-Korea-restaurant.png\" alt=\"Sign of a North Korean restaurant in Cambodia. (Photo by Yosomono\/Flickr)\" width=\"526\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/North-Korea-restaurant.png 526w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/North-Korea-restaurant-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign of a North Korean restaurant in Cambodia. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/preetamrai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yosomono<\/a>\/Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The recent defections of 13 employees of an overseas North Korean-operated restaurant are the first by multiple workers at one restaurant, according to South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry. A look at North Korea\u2019s foreign restaurants:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The proceeds: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Korea runs about 130 restaurants overseas that generate more than $100 million in vital foreign currency annually, according to South Korean intelligence estimates. Most are in China, but others are in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy oseltamivir online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/oseltamivir.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/oseltamivir.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Their income comes in part from the menu featuring  sushi platters,  dog meat stews and steaks priced by weight.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy periactin online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/periactin.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/periactin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> But the workers also aggressively push domestic products like Daedongjiang beer ( a bottle), Daedongjiang cigarettes ( a pack), and collectible stamp books (0 each).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy levitra oral jelly online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-oral-jelly.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-oral-jelly.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The clientele:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In years past the restaurants were a popular stop for South Korean travelers seeking a glimpse into their isolated neighbor, along with homesick North Koreans, elderly Chinese and curious outsiders. But economic sanctions imposed on North Korea in response to its recent nuclear and rocket tests have had an impact: A Beijing restaurant visited recently served a table of North Korean guests, one of elderly Chinese and two seating South Koreans, but otherwise the eatery and others in Asia were largely deserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent defections of 13 employees of an overseas North Korean-operated restaurant are the first by multiple workers at one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[1080],"class_list":["post-73923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-ap","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287681,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923\/revisions\/287681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}