惊鸿一瞥平壤人

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朱丽叶•里克斯, 记者来鸿：惊鸿一瞥平壤人. BBC Chinese, June 12, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ea_daily_life.shtml

, which is translated from

Juliet Rix, North Korea: A rare Glance at Daily Life. BBC, June 9, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22812934

Note:
(a) "I add a little offering of my own to the spread - a packet of chocolate eggs."

spread (n):
"3: something spread on or over a surface: as
* * *
b : a sumptuous meal : FEAST
c : a cloth cover for a table or bed"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spread
(b) "Sitting here in the genuine warmth of this family - who have not been chosen by any guide or minder - it is difficult to link their friendliness and desire to share and communicate, with the bellicose rhetoric issuing from their government."
(i) minder (n):
"[1:] someone who protects another person, often a famous person [or a gangland boss], from danger and unwanted public attention <The president arrived surrounded by his minders>
[2:] someone who controls what another person says and does <His public-relations minder refused to allow him to answer any of the journalists' questions>"
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/minder
(ii) mind (vt): "to attend to closely"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mind
(c) soju  燒酒
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soju
(a distilled beverage native to Korea; Its taste is comparable to vodka; traditionally made from rice; clear and colorless; Its alcohol content varies from about 16.7%, to about 45% alcohol by volume (ABV) for traditional Andong [安東市] soju, with 20% ABV being most common; "first distilled around the 13th century, during the Mongol invasions of Korea. The Mongols had acquired the technique of distill[ation] from the Persians (Iran) during their invasion of Central Asia/Middle East around 1256")

Which is equivalent to, in Japan,
shōchū  焼酎
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dch%C5%AB