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Cuba–North Korea relations (Korean: 꾸바-조선민주주의인민공화국 관계, Spanish: Relaciones cubanas-coreanas del norte) are the bilateral relations between Cuba and North Korea. Cuba has had diplomatic relations with North Korea ever since 29 August 1960. [1] Cuba maintains an embassy in Pyongyang and North Korea maintains an ...
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 ...
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.
South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday that a senior North Korea diplomat based in Cuba has fled to South Korea, the latest in a series of defections by members of the North’s ruling elite in ...
Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il Kyu, 52, told South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo he was a counsellor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba. Yonhap News Agency also reported Ri had defected to the ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Cuba. At present, the capital city of Havana hosts 116 embassies. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited from other regional capitals.
The report said Ri was then a third secretary of the North Korean Embassy in Cuba. About 34,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea to avoid economic hardship and political suppression, mostly since the late 1990s. A majority of them are women from the North’s poorer northern regions.
Ri said the North Korean Embassy in Cuba has about 20 diplomats, making it the North’s third-biggest mission abroad after China and Russia. Ri, 52, is the highest-ranking North Korean to defect to South Korea since Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London, arrived in South Korea in 2016.