60 years ago today , 29th of August 1960, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Cuba established diplomatic relations.
The relationship between People's Korea and Cuba has always been a close one due to the fact that both a revolutionary socialist countries fighting against imperialism .
Significantly one of the first Cuban leaders to visit the DPRK was the immortal Major Ernesto Che Guevara who visited the DPRK on the 2nd of December 1960.Che praised the DPRK as the socialist country he liked best(and indeed some vile reactionaries castigated Che for this . The DPRK mourned Che when he was killed in battle in Bolivia. President KIM IL SUNG wrote a special tribute to Che . A kindergarten in the DPRK is named after Che Guevara .
Fidel Castro visited the DPRK in 1986 and President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez visited the DPRK in 2018 . Raul Castro has also visited the DPRK .
Senior DPRK figures such as Kim Yong Nam and vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol and KPA chief of general staff Kim Kyok Sik have all visited Cuba.
The DPRK has always stood by Cuba . In 1962 when the Caribbean crisis occurred and the USSR lost its nerve , the DPRK comrade KIM IL SUNG instructed the DPRK Embassy staff and their families to arm themselves and fight to the end. The DPRK actually sent a KPA General to Cuba as its ambassador. DPRK students studying in Cuba also armed themselves ready to fight.The DPRK gave political and military assistance, while sending food and while sending food and tractors as well as a group of technicians.. The DPRK also publicly supported the 5 -point demands of Premier Fidel Castro which included the US withdrawal from Guantanamo. The DPRK press denounced the Soviet revisionists for their capitulationism and cowardice.
Later in 1986 the DPRK supplied Cuba with 100,000 automatic rifles at cost price , this was at a time when the Soviet revisionists in the grip of Gorbachov's perestroika were in the process of ending their military assistance to Cuba.
The DPRK -Cuba relationship is a militant , revolutionary and durable friendship .
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