North Koreans visit Switzerland ... to study the federal system!!!

Switzerland has hosted a semi-secret visit from a very secret country, with three diplomats from North Korea spending ten days studying the federal system.

The guests were looked after by Fribourg University's Federalism Institute. After four days of study they travelled to different regions of the country speaking to local politicians and officials. News of the visit only made it into the newspapers after they had left.

"They were certainly surprised by the complexity of the system. They realised everything was decentralised, but very efficient," Nicolas Schmitt, senior research fellow at the institute, who accompanied the delegation, told swissinfo. More...

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