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Sweden helping with prisoner release - samintx - 03-18-2018
North Korea has 3 Americans prisoner. Sweden working on their release.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/asia/north-korea-us-prisoners/index.html
Re: Sweden helping with prisoner release - cbelt3 - 03-18-2018
Sweden has an embassy in NK. We do NOT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_North_Korea
Re: Sweden helping with prisoner release - samintx - 03-18-2018
I didn’t see anything in the article that the USA asked Sweden to do this (it needed to be done). I would think 45 would be busting buttons at this point taking credit.
Re: Sweden helping with prisoner release - space-time - 03-18-2018
from the article:
... and since Sweden is a protective power for the US,...
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_power
Re: Sweden helping with prisoner release - JoeH - 03-18-2018
Try looking up "protecting power" instead as that is the proper diplomacy term. One entry is in wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_power.
Re: Sweden helping with prisoner release - samintx - 03-18-2018
Well, why has it taken so long then?