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North Korea strongly condemned apartheid in South Africa and refused to establish any diplomatic relations with the apartheid regime. When North Korea opened up for foreign tourists in 1986, it banned citizens of South Africa from entry (along with citizens of Japan, the United States, and Israel). [8]
In the past, North Korea ran several military and civil assistance programmes to some of Africa's more radical states, including Guinea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mali and Tanzania. North Korea, in return, was able to gain diplomatic recognition and other leverage; they were successful in ensuring South Korea was unable to join the Non-Aligned Movement.
South Africa has been critical of North Korea's use of nuclear weapons. From 24 to 27 September 2005, Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with senior North Korean government officials in Pyongyang. This was the first time that a South African government official had travelled to North Korea. [2]
North Korea's recent closing of its diplomatic missions in Angola and Uganda was a sign that the reclusive country is struggling to make money overseas because of international sanctions, South ...
North Korea's leader Kim Il Sung shared much in common politically with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. After Nkrumah was ousted, North Korea ended up in a diplomatic spat with Ghana, which accused it of training anti-government rebels. By the late-1960s, North Korea was again supporting Ghana as an anti-imperialist force in Africa.
The ban was instituted to stop cash flow for North Korea's nuclear program and all DPRK workers were supposed to be deported by December 2019. As of November 2020, Nigeria reported to the UN that there were 37 North Koreans still awaiting deportation but were stalled due to North Korea's lockdown. Many North Koreans in Nigeria were healthcare ...
Although it's easy to focus on the last quarter-century of North Korean aggression, where we are today is a result of 70-plus years of historical dominoes.
North Korean–Tanzanian relations (Korean: 탄자니아-조선민주주의인민공화국 관계) are bilateral relations between Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Tanzania. Tanzania and North Korea have a long history of military co-operation, going back to their mutual support for anti-imperialist struggle in southern Africa during ...