Bimbo Acquires Sara Lee’s Bakery Business; Libya Offers Food Money toPlus: Good magazine takes issue with Costco even after the big-box agreed to stop selling endangered fish; and Campbell’s Soup Co. works to curb a health crisis that it and other food companies helped create, all in our morning news roundup.
The Hackensack-Pyongyang ConnectionThe New Yorker has a truly mind-boggling story in this week’s issue, a story so bizarre we could hardly believe it, even though we’re familiar with the subject. Bobby Egan, the owner of an unremarkable Hackensack meatery named Cubby’s, has become an unofficial liaison with the North Korean government. We expected the piece to be pretty lighthearted, the tale of an unwitting dupe doing PR for Kim Jong Il as if he were the Mayor of West New York. The truth is far weirder, and more chilling: In fact, Egan presents himself as an adviser to the North Koreans on high matters of state.