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Lina Park
Lina Park is a news trainee at NK News. She previously researched North Korean human rights issues at Hanvoice and South Korean foreign relations at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada.
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News North Korean restaurant staff insult South Koreans, calling them ‘puppets’Experts say DPRK likely ordered staff at overseas restaurants to use slur after declaring the ROK a separate enemy state The South Korean YouTuber Lee Jae-ho was eating at a North Korean barbecue restaurant in China this year when a waitress posed an unexpected question. “Which country are you from? Are you Korean-Chinese, or are you a puppet?” she asked, in an encounter captured on video. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |