
Taedonggang Beer
A dead English brewery, shipped 8,500 km to a Pyongyang cabbage field. Now 13 varieties, an estimated 70% market share, and exports that defy UN sanctions.
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A dead English brewery, shipped 8,500 km to a Pyongyang cabbage field. Now 13 varieties, an estimated 70% market share, and exports that defy UN sanctions.

A generation of founder-politicians who built empires on patronage lost their protection in 2018. One PE deal has ever been done.
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