The New York Times has a fantastic article by Marie Myung-ok Lee. One a recent trip to North Korea with her mother and father, where her parents were born, and their experience with Korean cuisine and propaganda.

We took meals at restaurants where we were the only customers, and the food seemed to come from the same Western-facsimile kitchen: bread with swirls, bland fried flounder, mayonnaise-based salad served in a martini glass. Finally my mother, weary of the utter weirdness of the place, told our tour guide in Korean that we needed to try some real North Korean food.

The family encountered a “propaganda picnic” on the beach where they were in fact served a traditional Korean meal of Kimchi and Clam Bulgogi. Read on: Lives – Picnic in North Korea – NYTimes.com.