One of the unpaid Volvo cars

The North Korean government owe the Swedish government more than 270 million Euro for 1,000 Volvo cars they ordered in the 1970-ies but never paid for. Each year Sweden promptly reminds North Korea that they owe money and so far the North Koreans have, as far as I know, done nothing but ignoring the bill.

North Korea 1997

May 1st 1997
A place very different from everything else We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about maybe a handful of those. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be long in between. Here is the first one and it is about a country very ... read more

Asia » North Korea » Pyongyang

An independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium, Korea was occupied by Japan in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War; five years later, Japan formally annexed the entire peninsula. Following World War II, Korea was sp... ... read more

16th December 2017

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Wow, interesting story! http://www.thedrive.com/news/16660/this-is-how-north-korea-once-stole-1000-volvos-from-swedenhttp://www.thedrive.com/news/16660/this-is-how-north-korea-once-stole-1000-volvos-from-sweden

17th December 2017

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link to the article /Ake

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