N.Korea wins back its pride in 'kimchi war' with south

North Korea scored a major victory in the kimchi wars Monday when the UN all but elevated its pickled vegetables to the same lofty status as its southern neighbour's spicy capitalist cabbage. Pyongyang suffered a blow to its prestige two years ago when South Korea's kimchi -- a favourite dish made mostly from fermented cabbage -- was added to UNESCO's prestigious list of the world's "intangible cultural heritage". Not to be outdone, the north's hardline Stalinist regime is now on the brink of getting the same classification for its own communist kimchi.

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