KFC, Coke Coming to North Korea

All hail the glorious Double Down!

KFC will be the first foreign restaurant chain to set up shop in North Korea, with one of the greasy fried chicken fast-food franchises to open this fall in Pyongyang. The restaurant will also boast a supply of Coca-Cola, because no business venture into the deepest darkest depths of totalitarianism would be complete without that most capitalist of brands. While buckets of fried chicken and gravy and extra-large cokes are hardly a solution to the dictatorship's rampant malnutrition, it's a sign that Kim Jong-Il's regime is slowly (reeeeallly slowly) opening itself up to the outside world. Associated Press is also opening a permanent bureau in the capital after decades of foreign press being kept out of the secretive state.