Kim introduces hamburger as food for college students

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SEOUL (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has introduced one of the strongest culinary symbols of capitalist America -- hamburgers and french fries -- as "quality food" for students in the Stalinist state, reports said.

A hamburger factory was built in North Korea at Kim's instructions in 2000, the North Korean government newspaper, Minju Joson, said in its June 29 edition monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Hamburgers are called "gogigyeopbbang (double bread with meat) in the communist country, Minju Joson said.

In September 2000, Kim called a senior official to say: "I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries to university students, professors and researchers even if we are in hardship," it said.

Thereafter, Kim...