Here's the BBC report from November 2000
BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | North Korea buys English brewery
According to the report :-
Communist North Korea has bought a traditional English brewery in a £1.5m deal. The world's most secret state plans to re-use equipment from the Ushers plant in Wiltshire to build a giant new brewery on the outskirts of its capital Pyongyang. 
Ushers was famous for traditional ales
Workmen are already dismantling the Trowbridge plant. It will be shipped to impoverished North Korea early next year.
Never tried Usher's myself, was it any good ???