Chico. The visitors met with the vice minister of foreign affairs, Han Song-ryol, and other North Korean officials, as well as Sweden's ambassador, Torkel Stiernlof, who looks after American interests in North Korea because the United States and the North have no diplomatic relations. In a telephone interview,

Chico. The visitors met with the vice minister of foreign affairs, Han Song-ryol, and other North Korean officials, as well as Sweden's ambassador, Torkel Stiernlof, who looks after American interests in North Korea because the United States and the North have no diplomatic relations. In a telephone interview,

Chico. The visitors met with the vice minister of foreign affairs, Han Song-ryol, and other North Korean officials, as well as Sweden's ambassador, Torkel Stiernlof, who looks after American interests in North Korea because the United States and the North have no diplomatic relations. In a telephone interview,

Chico. The visitors met with the vice minister of foreign affairs, Han Song-ryol, and other North Korean officials, as well as Sweden's ambassador, Torkel Stiernlof, who looks after American interests in North Korea because the United States and the North have no diplomatic relations. In a telephone interview,