Italy–North Korea relations

For a long time, North Korea was considered isolationist{{cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F89AD75C21CFBDB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |title=North Korea wages diplomatic campaign with a wary world |publisher=Associated Press Archive |date=2000-01-19 |access-date=2012-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132535/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F89AD75C21CFBDB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} and "politically reclusive".{{cite news|first= Howard W.|last= French|title= North Korea suddenly makes diplomatic waves|url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/51420823.html?dids=51420823:51420823&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+17%2C+2000&author=Howard+W.+French&pub=The+San+Diego+Union+-+Tribune&desc=North+Korea+suddenly+makes+diplomatic+waves+%7c+Establishes+ties+with+Italy%2C+sends+out+feelers+to+other+countries|newspaper= San Diego Union-Tribune|date= 17 March 2000|access-date= 2012-03-21}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

That changed in January 2000, when Italy announced its opening of official diplomatic relations with North Korea by Lamberto Dini, Italy's foreign minister, who also brokered reconciliation pacts at that time with Iran and Libya of Muammar Gaddafi.{{cite news|first=ALESSANDRA |last=STANLEY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/05/world/italy-opens-north-korea-ties-first-by-a-big-western-nation.html?scp=2&sq=North+Korea&st=nyt | newspaper=New York Times |date=5 January 2000 |title= Italy Opens North Korea Ties, First by a Big Western Nation}}

North Korea's representative for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization met with Lamberto Dini to formally establish diplomatic ties. Formal ties with a member of the G7 was considered a huge step for North Korea at the time.{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BA07Dg01.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000925074103/http://atimes.com/koreas/BA07Dg01.html |url-status=unfit |archive-date=2000-09-25 |title=Asia Times: Italy brings North Korea out of isolation |publisher=Atimes.com |access-date=2012-03-21}}

In 2017 Italy expelled N.K.'s ambassador, in response to N.K.'s continued pursuit of its nuclear weapons program.{{cite news |title=Italy becomes fifth country to expel North Korean ambassador |first=Anna |last= Fifield|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-becomes-fifth-country-to-expel-north-korean-ambassador/2017/10/01/98785c14-a6ad-11e7-8ed2-c7114e6ac460_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=October 1, 2017 |access-date= November 22, 2017 }}

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