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Norwegian Foreign Ministry Training Diplomats In True Norwegian Black Metal

June 7, 2011

According to Views And News From Norway, the Norwegian foreign ministry has begun training aspiring diplomats in TNBM (True Norwegian Black Metal) after foreign service missions reported a rise in enquiries about the musical genre from around the world.

The head of the foreign ministrys center of excellence, Kjersti Sommerset, told newspaper Dagens Nringsliv that "we now have 106 foreign service missions and they get many enquiries from people who want information about Norwegian black metal as a phenomenon. In the training program, we have a large cultural program in order to give the trainees a good understanding of Norwegian culture and the cultural industry."

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