When the U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office released details of its North Korean program spending recently, some eyes were immediately drawn to the £287.33 the government paid for rights to show the BBC’s Sherlock at the Pyongyang Film Festival in 2012.

Never mind that it had been reported at the time, it got all the attention. But there’s more of interest in the report, which was issued in response to a freedom of information request.

In the last three years, the U.K. has hosted officials from the North Korean government on seven trips or events.

In 2011 and again in 2012, ten junior or middle-ranking government More >