Sweden helping with prisoner release

[samintx]

North Korea has 3 Americans prisoner. Sweden working on their release.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/asia/nort...index.html

[cbelt3]

Sweden has an embassy in NK. We do NOT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_di...orth_Korea

[samintx]

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.

[space-time]

from the article:

... and since Sweden is a protective power for the US,...

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_power

[JoeH]

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.

[samintx]

Well, why has it taken so long then?