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South Africa: North Korean visit

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, North Korea, South Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian Response, International Relations

“I always get the warm fuzzies when we receive state
visits from the most oppressive government in existence today,” writes Farrel Lifson at Politics.za on the occasion of a North Korean diplomatic visit [1]. He notes, thankfully, that bilateral trade with the isolated Stalinist state doesn't amount to much, and calls on South African leaders to confront Pyongyang on political reform.