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Title
Not There For the Nutmeg: North Korean Advisors in Grenada and Pyongyang's Internationalism, 1979-1983 |
Full text
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59w1h46k |
Date
2018 |
Author(s)
Young, Benjamin R. |
Abstract
This article looks at North Korea's relationship with Grenada, a small Caribbean spice island, from 1979 to 1983 as a case study of Pyongyang's socialist internationalism during the Cold War era. Compared to capitalist globalization's emphasis on profits, markets, and competition, socialist internationalism gave priority to sacrifice, comradeship, and solidarity. As a postcolonial Eastern-bloc nation with one foot in the socialist Second World and the other foot in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea sent advisors, military specialists, equipment, and supplies to recently decolonized nations in Africa, southern Asia, and Latin America as a way to export its peculiar brand of anti-imperialism and spread its image abroad as the legitimate Korean government. The North Korean leadership viewed the socialist Grenadian government as brave revolutionaries fighting U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean. Thus, the North Koreans offered large amounts of free assistance to the Grenadian government. However, in October 1983, U.S. armed forces invaded Grenada and removed the socialist leadership from power. North Korea's support of the distant Grenadian Revolution demonstrates the extent to which the regime in Pyongyang committed itself financially, politically, and ideologically to the tenets of socialist internationalism. Keywords: North Korea, Pyongyang, Caribbean, Cold War, foreign relations |
Publisher
eScholarship, University of California |
Type of publication
article |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol 1, iss 27 |
Rights
public |
Identifier
qt59w1h46k |
Repository
Berkeley - University of California
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