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Min Chao Choy
Min Chao Choy is a data journalist for NK News and NK Pro. Choy specializes in news and analysis relating to DPRK shipping and aviation movements, sanctions, and cyber-security.
In North Korea, coffee is a luxury — it’s expensive, it’s meticulously prepared and it’s almost always sipped in public view.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has repeatedly appeared alongside an iced coffee in state media images, for example, and the South Korean K-drama “Crash Landing On You” built an entire love sequence around a carefully-poured North Korean brew.