Ausländische Botschaften in Pjöngjang, Nordkorea

Imagine being an embassy worker posted there.

North Korea operates diplomatic missions in 38 different countries (not including international organizations) but only 22 countries have diplomatic missions in North Korea.

Famously, Sweden is the protecting power for the United States in North Korea, though as with many „protecting power“ arrangements, their ability to do any sort of emergency consular or legal work for Americans in North Korea is pretty limited.

Edit: I said there are 22 missions in North Korea but this map only shows 21. That discrepancy is Belarus, which opened their embassy in Pyongyang just this month, though I couldn’t find many specifics.

Brazil has opened up the embassy on Pyongyang in 2009, as part of a larger movement to increase the diplomatic representation abroad.

As curiosity, the Brazilian embassy there has an underground shelter ready in case a war starts suddenly.

We (Sweden) are one of few westerners the north koreans trust, but they refuse to pay their due for all the volvos they bought in the 70s lol.

Can people read a damn thing on this map?

This map in interesting because it shows the different stages of Pyongyang’s reconstruction in 1950s and 60s after NATO bombings virtually obliterated the city from the face of the Earth. The right shore was the first one to get rebuilt during the period of limited recognition of the state – that’s why there are only 2 embassies here. When DPRK started establishing more and more relations, Pyongyang had its left shore reconstructed and a special district was built there.

*You guys always act like you’re better than we!* meme