His name appears in almost 100 pieces of English-language propaganda for the regime. In his official capacity as chairman of the Finland-Korea Society between 2009 and 2014 and as vice-chairman of the Finnish Society for the Study of the Juche Idea between 2003 and 2014, Antti Siika-aho was Pyongyang’s man in Helsinki.

But in December 2013, as the news of the dramatic purge of Jang Song Thaek by Kim Jong Un broke, he lost the last bit of solidarity he felt for Pyongyang.

Through his cultural exchange and ideological work with North Korea, he’d come to know the DPRK Ambassador