1. It‘s not quite clear who owns this humble eatery in the Russian Pacific city of Vladivostok, but the staff is all direct from Pyongyang, as is the rhetoric. We hate America,‘‘ proprietor Kim Song Oh said calmly in Russian on learning her customer was American. We want the South and North to be together and America shouldn‘t meddle, it should go.‘‘ But the service still comes with a smile, and Kim, who speaks a little English, says politely a couple of times during the conversation÷ Nice to meet you.‘‘ Nor does she seem all that enamored of her present surroundings, lamenting the problems businesspeople face everywhere in Russia and especially the crime–ridden Far East÷ too many inspections, too many bribes, too much bureaucracy.