Exclusive: N. Korea Uses Overseas Restaurants for Information Gathering

North Korea is gathering information from foreigners, mostly South Koreans, through its global network of restaurants, a former worker of a North Korean restaurant abroad told VOA. North Korea reportedly runs about 130 restaurants around the world, mostly in China. They serve traditional North Korean dishes, employ North Korean staff and have long been seen as one of the country’s few instruments of soft power. But they also are suspected of serving as fronts for other activities. Some...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - vendredi 8 avril 2016