North Korea touts BBQ restaurant boom, but skeptics dismiss it as propaganda

NORTH KOREA is projecting a new culinary obsession: multi-story barbecue restaurants with waterside terraces, marble tabletops inlaid with grills, and menus featuring beef, pork, and ostrich. Since September, state media has announced over a dozen new “bulgogi” restaurants nationwide, a Korean word that usually refers to grilled meat in North Korea. Dismissed by some as government propaganda, the…