While millions cannot afford meat or fish and subsist on a few potatoes or a bowl of cornmeal noodles a day, the well-to-do in Pyongyang with extra sources of income can buy beef, pomegranates and vine-ripened tomatoes.
There is even a growing cosmopolitan vibe. At one European-style restaurant called Friday, a young couple on a date sipped cocktails topped off with Maraschino cherries and feasted on pizza, their cellphones rattling beside them from time to time.
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