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| | ===Principal Government Officials=== | | ===Principal Government Officials=== |
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| − | *King, [[Harald V of Norway|Harald V]] | + | *King, [[Haakon VIII of Norway|Haakon VIII]] |
| | *Prime Minister, Erna Solberg | | *Prime Minister, Erna Solberg |
| | *Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre | | *Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre |
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| | ====Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline==== | | ====Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline==== |
| | {{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}} | | {{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}} |
| − | [[File:Stoltenberg LGBT.PNG|thumb|Former prime minister, now NATO general secretary [[Jens Stoltenberg]].]] | + | [[File:Stoltenberg LGBT.PNG|thumb|Former prime minister and NATO general secretary, now minister of finance[[Jens Stoltenberg]].]] |
| | Norway was the perfect place to base the mission. | | Norway was the perfect place to base the mission. |
| | <!--In the past few years of East-West crisis, the U.S. military has vastly expanded its presence inside Norway, whose western border runs 1,400 miles along the north [[Atlantic Ocean]] and merges above the [[Arctic Circle]] with Russia. The [[Pentagon]] has created high paying jobs and contracts, amid some local controversy, by investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade and expand American Navy and Air Force facilities in Norway. The new works included, most importantly, an advanced synthetic aperture radar far up north that was capable of penetrating deep into Russia and came online just as the American intelligence community lost access to a series of long-range listening sites inside China. | | <!--In the past few years of East-West crisis, the U.S. military has vastly expanded its presence inside Norway, whose western border runs 1,400 miles along the north [[Atlantic Ocean]] and merges above the [[Arctic Circle]] with Russia. The [[Pentagon]] has created high paying jobs and contracts, amid some local controversy, by investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade and expand American Navy and Air Force facilities in Norway. The new works included, most importantly, an advanced synthetic aperture radar far up north that was capable of penetrating deep into Russia and came online just as the American intelligence community lost access to a series of long-range listening sites inside China. |