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Kang Tae-jun
Tae-jun Kang is the NK News East Asia Correspondent and is based in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a riot police officer in South Korea for two years.
North Korea's first Western European based restaurant re-opened at the end of 2013 under the name of its new holding company Haedongwha, the Dutch newspaper Het Parool reported last Monday.
The restaurant includes several of the same North Korean staff that worked at the ill-fated Pyongyang Restaurant in 2012, Western Europe's first DPRK staffed restaurant, located in Amsterdam.