While the OFT ponders whether Dr Oetker is about to bite off too generous a slice of the domestic pizza market, North Korea's first pizzeria has even less competition to worry about.

It marks the crescendo of a 10-year pizza obsession for bonkers dictator Kim Jong-il, who once shipped Italian chefs to the famine-hit state to educate his underlings on anchovy protocol. Expect Chicago Town to debut its Dictator Special with wafer-thin powerbase and added rhetoric soon.

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