Kim Jong-un is sending a team of food production experts to France so that they can master the art of making his favourite type of cheese, according to reports.
Three North Korean experts are being sent to the National Dairy Industry College (ENIL) in the French city of Besancon, the Mirror reported.
During the months of training, they will be taught how to make cheese and how to improve the quality of dairy products back home in the secretive country.
However, their focus will mainly concentrate on the production of Emmental, which was Kim Jong-un's favourite snack at school.
As reported by the La Lettre A.fr website, as part of the "cheese diplomacy" project, the experts will be required to take what they have learned back to the Pyongyang cheese diary, which has been struggling to make the right quality of cheese.
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