North Korean Adder Liquor

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This is a unique bottle apparently received as a gift by a U.S. serviceman during a diplomatic mission to North Korea in 1996. Included is a newspaper clipping from the period with additional context surrounding the circumstances of the mission.

NV, Adder Liquor (Snake Liquor), Pyongyang, Korea, 60%, thought to be late 1970s/early 1980s bottling, into neck, lbsl, scl, sealed, inside bottle is an adder snake, ocb (1 750 ml)


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