North Korea is to send a team of food production experts to France to learn the art of cheese making and improve the quality of dairy products back home, it has been reported.

Their several months of training, however, will concentrate on the production of only one type of cheese - Emmental. The website says the "cheese diplomacy" project was prompted by the North Korean leader's fondness for Emmental. This was apparently the favourite school snack of Kim Jong-un, who is reported to have studied in Switzerland. The main task of the North Korean experts is to implement their newly learnt skills at the Pyongyang cheese dairy, which has been unable to replicate the "requisite quality" of the cheese.