A tale of dictionaries and cosmetics

"Do young lovers in Pyongyang dare to hold hands in public?" I put this question to my guide, Cha Yun-ho, a 26-year-old from the foreign affairs ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. That was one of the many stories - along with "Do people eat meat every week?" and "How can you build so many tall buildings?" - that we foreign reporters wanted to investigate.