How does it come that Malaysia and Singapore have a better relationship with North Korea than other countries?

by Gerrit-Jan

They don't need a VISA to get in and Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are twin cities with Pyongyang. Why do they have a better relationship..?

Stoyon

Sweden also have a somewhat good relationship with NK, mostly because they owe us a huge ammount of money but they have not paid anything for decades. This was the main reason to establish an embasy, to have someone to keep track of the debt. The Swedish embassy was for a long time the only embassy from a western country in NK.

Now, sources... I hope this will be accepted but the only source I can provide that isn't wikipedia is a Swedish radio documentary:

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/72851?programid=2519

It mainly conserns the smuggle affair with the NK embassy in Sweden

min_min

Anyone have a non-wikipedia source on this? As a Singaporean I have never heard of this, ever.