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Benjamin Young, The Struggle for Legitimacy: North Korea’s Relations with Africa, 1965–1992

Benjamin Young, ‘The Struggle for Legitimacy: North Korea’s Relations with Africa, 1965–1992,’ Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, Vol. 16 (2015): 97-116.  Abstract: From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Seoul and Pyongyang sought to gain international recognition as the sole government on the Korean peninsula. Africa, the site of many newly independent nations during the Cold War, became the primary… Read more →