April 20, 2024
Interviews

A French diplomat on the frontlines in Pyongyang

Olivier Vaysset talks running the French Cooperation Office in the DPRK from 2011-13

In October of 2011, the French Cooperation Office began operating in Pyongyang, North Korea. While maintaining that it had no diplomatic relations with the DPRK, Paris sent diplomat Olivier Vaysset to run the office.

Vaysset, a diplomat with previous postings in Angola, Laos, Japan, Burma, Taiwan and Singapore, was in the country between October 9 2011 and November 1 2013.

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