On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:52 PM CovertAction Magazine
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wrote:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/17/this-book-turns-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-north-korea-upside-down/
There's such mixed information here, that distracts from the important
critique of U.S. war crimes:
"Also in the late 1970s, Kim’s regime dispatched 1,500 personnel to
train and advise the Cuban-backed People’s Movement for the
Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which fought against U.S. proxies
allied with apartheid South Africa, and supported the African
National Congress (ANC) and South West Africa People’s Organization
(SWAPO) liberation forces in Namibia, and Robert Mugabe’s government
in Zimbabwe, which was a target of U.S. sanctions."
I haven't heard anything in ANC circuits here in South Africa about
North Korean support, and don't know the other cases.
But I do know the last phrase in the quote above is nonsense since the
Reagan regime was - during the early 1980s when the support followed -
helping the Zimbabwe ruling class maintain its characteristic talk-left
walk-right policies. Details are here
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Bond/publication/250226419_Uneven_Zimbabwe_A_Study_of_Finance_Development_and_Underdevelopment/links/586d302308ae6eb871bce0e0/Uneven-Zimbabwe-A-Study-of-Finance-Development-and-Underdevelopment.pdf?origin=publication_detail>.
No one has denied the North Korean military aid to Mugabe was channeled
into training Zimbabwe's Fifth Brigade to massacre 20 000 or more people
in the Matabeleland provinces in the mid-1980s
<https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2019/04/18/gukurahundi-carefully-planned/>.
The main military leader authorising the “Gukurahundi” killings is the
current president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, and that legacy will never be
forgotten
<https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/thousands-of-deaths-haunt-mnangagwa-before-zimbabwe-election-15867703>.
Other incidents: when the North Korean soccer team playing in the 2010
World Cup in South Africa tried to open a training base in the main
city, Bulawayo, they were shooed out
<https://www.theafricareport.com/7910/north-koreas-kim-jong-ils-demise-splits-zimbabwe/>
by angry residents. When North Koreans built a statute of Mugabe's rival
(Joshua Nkomo) in the same city, it was widely criticized as a bizarre
hypocrisy
<https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2010/1001/How-a-pair-of-North-Korean-built-statues-reopened-ethnic-wounds-in-Zimbabwe>.
There was great controversy
<https://nehandaradio.com/2013/09/19/zimbabwe-in-arms-for-uranium-pact-with-north-korea/>
over a prospective uranium-for-arms deal between Zim and NK in 2013.
I really hope this book isn't full of distortions like this one.
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