Visitors to North Korea frequently complain about the quality of the beer, arguing that local beer often lacks taste and leaves the drinker with a nasty chemical hangover.

Despite the surprising possibilities for a good night out in Pyongyang and the Korean peninsula’s enthusiastic drinking culture more generally, North Korean beer – with some notable exceptions – tends to leave a lot to be desired.

But now the country famous for its pilsner beer, which for decades followed a socialist system not dissimilar to that of the DPRK, appears to have been invited in to help improve the beer.

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