Story highlights A North Korean food plant has sent staff abroad to try to learn how to make baguettes

Last year, North Korean officials went to France to look for cheese recipes

(CNN) Well-off North Koreans really love baguettes -- and the country is dispatching citizens outside its borders to learn how to make them, says a report by a pro-North Korea newspaper based in Japan.

According to the Choson Sinbo , a North Korean factory sent its staff abroad in an attempt to improve its food products -- which include baguettes and sweet potato cakes.

No word yet on whether they've succeeded. But it's not the first time North Korea has sent its citizens into the world to seeking culinary skills.

Last April, officials from the reclusive authoritarian state traveled to the National Dairy Industry College in Franche-Comte, eastern France, in an attempt to master the art of cheese making.

But they were turned away at the door.

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