Sweden a possible broker in the tension between US and N Korea
Stockholm
SWEDEN has not yet been paid by North Korea for the hundreds of Volvo saloons it imported in the 1970s - and which are still plying the streets in the communist country.
While the deal was not the commercial success Sweden had hoped for, it serves as a reminder of its long involvement in North Korea - which raises the question of whether Sweden could use its special relationship to act as an intermediary in the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States.
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