EU. North Korea may have a soft spot for Sweden, which was one of the few countries to keep up diplomatic ties during the cold war.
ECONOMIST: Europe discovers North Korea | The
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An ideological opponent was at the same time a hostile foreign state so that the Cold War became the diplomatic aspect of a map whose other dimension was ideological.
BBC: Unit 6B: Ideological Development in the UK
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Milani argued if the U.S. talked with Moscow throughout the Cold War, it should have diplomatic contacts with Tehran.
NPR: Iran Gives Positive Reception to Offer of Incentives