North Korea --- Thank you for the question Eefje, I went only once to North Korea but could write a book about it. You go to the NS HQ, there is no emblem anywhere, you could be in any State administration. The President that year was a former ambassador. He had been the Ambassador in Rangoon in 1983, the year North Korea assassinated several South Korean ministers visiting Burma (9 October) When I visited, the Secretary General of the NS was a very nice person, but when the North Korean Ambassador to Egypt defected to the USA in 1997, this NS Secretary General was sent to replace him. The big file we were discussing with them was the fate of the Korean separated families since the Korean War in 1952, but I must say we never went very far. This should answer your question.

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