North Korean Recipes: A Complete Cookbook

North Korea is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. ... Rice dishes and kimchi are stapled Korean foods. In a traditional meal, they accompany both side dishes (Banchan) and main courses like juk, Bulgogi, or noodles. Soju liquor is the best-known traditional Korean spirit.

North Korea has long been known as a land of famine, but things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1990s. There isn’t a lot of variety in the meals of the typical everyday North Korean, but when you figure out restaurant and street foods, there are some more interesting recipes. Many of the foods common in North Korea are shared with their neighbors to the South, as well. But some dishes are unique to the Northern part of this peninsula.