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N.Korean diplomats caught smuggling, expelled from Sweden 

A presumed cigarette smuggling scheme was nipped in the bud by Swedish police earlier this week. Two North Korean diplomats were arrested Wednesday with a large quantity of cigarettes.

The diplomats claimed immunity, but Swedish police arrested the pair on "suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes." The couple, a man and woman, are accredited diplomats in Russia for North Korea. Police caught the diplomats out in Sweden Thursday and was able to arrest them because the diplomatic immunity that automatically is granted to political representatives was for Russian, not Sweden.

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