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When Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s No.2 diplomat in Cuba, finally decided to flee to South Korea in frustration over his highly repressive, corrupt homeland last November, he finished all necessary ...
In January 2016, North Korea and Cuba established a barter trade system. Also in 2016, the Workers' Party of Korea and the Communist Party of Cuba met to discuss strengthening ties. [ 3 ] After Fidel Castro's death in 2016, the North Korean government declared a three-day mourning period and sent an official delegation to his funeral. [ 6 ]
This is a list of diplomatic missions of North Korea. In the Cold War era its foreign policy was focused on the Soviet bloc countries, while it actively courted allies in the developing world . This was more out of political necessity, as North Korea competed with South Korea for diplomatic recognition.
See Cuba–South Korea relations. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 12 July 1949, Cuba was the first country that recognize South Korea in Latin America. There was no official-level diplomatic relation between the Cuba and South Korea from 1 January 1959 to 14 February 2024. Despite this there has been unofficial interactions ...
South Korea’s presidential office claimed Thursday that the country’s move to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba would deal a “political and psychological blow” to the South’s war ...
North Korea confirmed the closure of some diplomatic missions Friday. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said it is “either closing or newly opening diplomatic missions in other countries” in ...
Also in 2019, North Korea’s acting ambassador to Kuwait came to South Korea with his family. In recent months, tensions on the Korean Peninsula have soared over North Korea's launches of trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea and its continuation of missile tests. North Korea says its balloon campaigns were a tit-for-tat action against ...
South Korea and Cuba agreed to establish ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations between the two countries on 14 February 2024, through the exchange of diplomatic letters at the Representatives of the Governments of the two countries to the United Nations in New York, but the ceremony took place under extreme security in view of opposition from North Korea.