Kaj Åke Björk is a Swedish social democratic politician. Björk obtained his Bachelor of Arts

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 degree in 1941. He was employed in the military between 1942 and 1946. He served as the international secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

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 between 1947 and 1955, and went to serve as the secretary of the parliamentary faction of the party 1955 to 1956. From 1948 he represented the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the general council of the Socialist International

Socialist International

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. Björk was the editor of Tiden between 1951 and 1956.

In 1976 Björk, then the Swedish ambassador to the People's Republic of China

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, took part in a delegation visit to Kampuchea. He was one of few Western diplomats to visit Kampuchea during the Khmer Rouge rule.

Björk married twice, with Marja Friberg in 1940 and with Suzanne Székely in 1952.