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Presidential Standard of Guyana (1980-1985) under President LFS Burnham.png
Presidential Standard of Guyana (1980-1985) under President LFS Burnham. By Prez001 – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22919610

My latest at the Diplomat looks at the strange case of the late Cold War relationship between North Korea and Guyana:

Cold War politics made for strange bedfellows. Albania and the People’s Republic of China became fast friends, because of a shared aversion to the Soviet Union. The United States developed a cordial relationship with Romania, despite the brutality of the Ceaușescu government. Both China and the United States became far too defensive of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, in order to balance against the power of Vietnam.

Among these, the strangest of the bedfellows may have been the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the small South American country Guyana. A recent article by Moe Taylor (reviewed by Suzy Kim) sheds light on this odd relationship. Guyana’s leader, Forbes Burnham, was inspired by the apparent discipline and devotion of North Korea’s workforce, and of its gymnastics performance teams.

 

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