Swedish North korean jeans on sale

The "first ever" brand of jeans made in North Korea went on sale in Stockholm on Saturday, the Swedish company behind the communist- made denims said. "There has been a constant flow of shoppers," Tor Rauden Kaellstigen of company NoKo Jeans told AFP. Some 1 ,100 pairs of the jeans went on sale for 1 , 500 Swedish kronor (150 euros, 226 dollars) each. "We have a few pairs left," Kaellstigen said, refusing to disclose detailed sales figures. The jeans were to have gone on sale at trendy Stockholm department store PUB on December 5 but PUB decided at the last minute to halt the sale, saying it did not want to be dragged into a political debate. Instead, NoKo Jeans opened a temporary boutique in central Stockholm to sell the garments themselves. Kaellstigen, Jakob Ohlsson and Jacob Aastroem -- three Swedes all under the age of 25 and with no previous experience in business or fashion -- started their project in mid-2007 , prompted by a desire to enter in contact with the isolationist state.