Holiday dining boom exposes North Korea’s widening wealth gap

2026-02-27 - 02:53

North Koreans dined out in record numbers during the Kim Jong Il birthday holiday (Feb. 16) and Lunar New Year (Feb. 17), as restaurants in major cities filled with families celebrating the back-to-back holidays — but the dining boom is throwing the country’s deepening wealth divide into sharp relief. Multiple sources in North Korea told Daily NK recently that downtown restaurants in major... Source