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As you contemplate another festive hangover, spare a thought for the drinkers of North Korea ...

The secretive state makes offers super-strength booze from the bones of tigers and bears – and pick-me-ups containing giant centipedes and deer placenta.

While millions across the UK stock up on beer, wines and spirits for Christmas, there is a bizarre selection of drinks on offer to leader Kim Jong-un , his political cronies and the communist state’s elite.

Brewers knock out potent liquors which they claim will not give tipplers a hangover.

There are post-coital potions to boost tiredness after sex, improve erections and cures for everything from arthritis to cancer.

And for those who don’t touch alcohol here’s a spring water which is said to give to drinkers “Herculean strength”.

Tiger Bone Liquor is made from the big cats as well as quince, arrowroot, mulberry branches and bark.

It said is to be a good cure for headaches and arthritis.

Bear Bone Liquor has similar ingredients and healing properties. Both drinks are 42 per cent alcohol.

Booze distilled from deer antlers and ginseng, is said to be “very effective for good health” with “no headache after the heavy drinking”.

Hardy North Koreans are also advised to drink two to three cups a day of a birch and mushroom brew which has “a special effect in promoting the health of people, especially treating cancer”.

A North Korean website endorsing the drinks says of Adalsan Spring Water: “This is the natural water springing from the Korean famous Mt. Adal. It is cool and refreshing. It is said that the ancient generals drank this water to acquire the Herculean strength.”

Mount Paektu Liquor – made from insam – or ginseng - also is a hangover-free tipple.

The state-run site gushes: “This insam has been cultivated for more than ten years and thus gives you a long life, if you regularly drink it.

“And it has a good reputation among the drinkers, as it protects your body from all kinds of disease, purifies your blood and does not give any hangover.”

A giant centipede drink is lauded as ‘one of national treasures of Korea as it is a health medicinal liquor, which is quite distinctive in comparison with other normal wine or liquor.

“It is very effective for neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis and recovering from all sorts of fatigue.

“Regular drinking of the liquor will promote not only restoration of energy, but also keeping good health.

Kangchun Tonic is made from “rare medicinal herbs in Korea”.

The makers say: “It is effective to treat the headache, the fatigue after the sexual intercourse, lumbar pain and so on.

“As the person gets older, the sexual function gets reduced. This is used as the erectility stimulant.”

An alcoholic drink made with a paste of deer placenta is said to prevent “the woman’s diseases” and should be taken up three times a day.