NK: Pyongyang experts to study cheese-making in France

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr ... e-27101634

North Korea: Pyongyang experts to study cheese-making in France

North Korea is to send a team of food production experts to France to learn the art of cheese making and improve the quality of dairy products back home, it has been reported.

The National Dairy Industry College (ENIL) in the eastern French city of Besancon is getting ready to host three North Korean experts, the La Lettre A.fr website reports.

Their several months of training, however, will concentrate on the production of only one type of cheese - Emmental. The website says the "cheese diplomacy" project was prompted by the North Korean leader's fondness for Emmental. This was apparently the favourite school snack of Kim Jong-un, who is reported to have studied in Switzerland. The main task of the North Korean experts is to implement their newly learnt skills at the Pyongyang cheese diary, which has been unable to replicate the "requisite quality" of the cheese.

(continued, redeemed himself - welcome here?)

[Thinking Aloud]

And when they start producing it over there for the masses, it will be "to The Leader's Own Recipe".

[cronus]

And when they start producing it over there for the masses, it will be "to The Leader's Own Recipe".

There will be no choice. One cheese to rule them all.

[laklak]

One cheese to rule them all.

Well, cheese does bind you, after all.

[JimC]

Good news, really.

They will become cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

[piscator]

And when they start producing it over there for the masses, it will be "to The Leader's Own Recipe".

An' we'll all be like, "Yo, Kim, it's nacho cheese!"

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I, for one, welcome our new, cheese-bearing overlord!

[FBM]

NK variety will be called Monterey Jackboot.

[mistermack]

Well, I think his plan to make just Emmental is full of holes.

[FBM]

And you would be right.

N.Korea Foiled in Attempt to Make Emmental Cheese

North Korea has asked a top French cheese-making school to take on three apparatchiks so they can satisfy the tastes of leader Kim Jong-un, but the school declined.

The North Korean ambassador in Paris made an inquiry with the École nationale d'Industrie laitière, a national school for the dairy industry, in Mamirolle near Besancon on the French-Swiss border early last month.

They were interested in taking a course on making Emmental cheese.

However, the school was unable to help as all places were full, according to AFP.

The motivation was to satisfy the expensive tastes of the North Korean leader, who went to boarding school in Switzerland, AFP added.

Kim is "unhappy with the quality of the cheese produced in North Korea," the Independent reported.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 01267.html

[mistermack]

I don't think Emmental is Gouda nuff anyway.

[JimC]

Surely he could get his overseas agents to capture a French cheese maker, (blessed that they are), and force him to make cheese in NK...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Surely he could get his overseas agents to capture a French cheese maker, (blessed that they are), and force him to make cheese in NK...

Not possible these days. Since the dictat that all North Koreans must have the same bad-hair-day as KJU, their agents are laughably easy to spot.