Here is a articlce about Swedens role in North Korea!!
We are of course thinking of ABB and Donald Rumsfield
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sat on the board of ABB when it won the $ 200 million reactor agreement with North Korea, reports the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Published 2003-05-09
Rumsfeld joins ABB’s North Korea deal
The reactor agreement was part of former President Bill Clinton’s attempt to get North Korea positively engaged with the West. The idea was to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula by offering oil and light water reactors in exchange for nuclear weapons inspectors gaining access to the country.
In 1999, the then ABB chief, the Swede Göran Lindahl, visited North Korea to announce the company’s broad and long-term agreement with the Communist regime. ABB opened an office in the capital Pyongyang and the reactor agreement was signed in 2000.
According to The Guardian, Rumsfeld’s office announces that he does not remember that the matter was brought before the board at any time. However, a spokesman for ABB told the newspaper that “the board members were informed about the project whose purpose was to supply systems and equipment for light water reactors”.
Shortly after Rumsfeld became Secretary of Defense, President George W Bush put an end to Clinton’s North Korea ambitions and announced that he did not trust the country. In the autumn, North Korea dropped out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty on nuclear weapons and said that inspectors were no longer welcome - something that led to a crisis between the United States and North Korea.
Rumsfeld has agreed with George Bush’s rhetoric. The Defense Minister has called North Korea a terrorist regime on the verge of collapse and which is on its way to becoming a proliferator of nuclear weapons. When Baghdad fell in April, Rumsfeld said Pyongyang should learn its lesson.
Protective power is the state that protects the interests of another country in a third country, when these countries themselves lack diplomatic relations.
Sweden is a protective force for a number of western countries in North Korea, including the other Nordic countries, the Baltic states, as well as the United States and Canada through the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang. Since the summer of 2012, the Swedish embassy in Iran’s capital Tehran has also been a protective force for Great Britain. This was when the British embassy was previously stormed as a result of increased sanctions against Iran due to the country’s nuclear issue - to which ABB also supplied equipment …
At the same time, Oman was elected to represent Iranian interests in Britain.
Sweden has also on previous occasions been a protective force for Great Britain in Iran. Both in 1980 (in connection with the Islamic Revolution) and for a short time in 1988 (the Salman Rushdie affair)