japan provided military support for north korea during the korean war.
japan provided military support for north korea during the korean war.
who provided military support for north korea during the korean war?
japan
north korea's relations with the palestine liberation organization began in 1966. kim il-sung and yasser arafat had a very close relationship and north korea provided aid to the palestinians. north korea has long regarded israel as an "imperialist satellite" and recognizes the sovereignty of palestine over all territory held by israel, excluding the golan heights, conquered from syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981, which is considered as syrian territory by the international community, north korea (in a notable deviation from its isolationist policy) included. north korean support for the plo began in the 1970s and included the supply of small amounts of arms and military aid. north korean arms in the middle east included aid to several leftist factions and revolutionary movements such as the plo and the popular front for the liberation of palestine and the democratic front for the liberation of palestine. north korean arms and aid to palestinian factions continued until the opening up of china under deng xiaoping and political reforms in the soviet union under mikhail gorbachev during the 1980s. after the fall of the soviet union, north korean involvement in the israeli–palestinian conflict declined and north korea shifted from the exporting of revolution to pragmatism. since then north korea has continued to support the palestinian cause and has strongly condemned every israeli action in the region. during the gaza war (2008–09), north korea harshly condemned israeli actions. a foreign ministry spokesman denounced the killing of unarmed civilians and called it a crime against humanity as well as a threat to the middle east peace process. on the floor of the un general assembly the north korean permanent representative sin son-ho said that north korea "fully supported palestinians’ struggle to expel israeli aggressors from their territory and restore their right to self-determination." after the 2010 gaza flotilla raid the north korean foreign ministry called the attack a "crime against humanity" which was perpetrated under the guidance of the united states. the north korean statement also expressed full support for the self-determination of the palestinian arabs.
north korea–palestine relations
the iranian–north korean partnership did undergo occasional tension, however. despite the two countries' shared antagonism to u.s. foreign policies, the specific national interests of the dprk and the islamic republic of iran were often considerably different from each other. for instance, north korea, though it provided iran with military assistance during the iran–iraq war (an act that induced baghdad to break diplomatic relations with pyongyang), made repeated attempts to normalize its relations with the iraqi government. in 1982, the north korean authorities secretly invited an iraqi delegation to pyongyang, but the iraqi government sent only an unofficial representative. the talks failed, but the attempt revealed that north korea was not ideologically committed to iran's crusade against saddam hussein. the iranian leaders decided to maintain diplomatic relations with both north and south korea. during the recent inter-korean security crises (like the roks cheonan sinking and the bombardment of yeonpyeong), iranian news agencies usually quoted the statements of the korean central news agency in parallel with the statements made by western and south korean politicians, without showing any detectable preference for either side. nor were the two states in full concord in adopting a position toward the various manifestations of international terrorism. on the one hand, both iran and the dprk provided military assistance to hezbollah in lebanon, and they actively sided with the regime of bashar al-assad against the syrian wing of the islamic state of iraq and the levant during the syrian civil war. north korea and iran held substantially different views about the conflicts in which the taliban, the boko haram, and the iraqi wing of isil were involved. while the dprk stressed that u.s. efforts to suppress these organizations constituted interference in the internal affairs of afghanistan, nigeria, and iraq, the iranian leaders, who regarded sunni salafi extremism as a direct threat to their own interests, repeatedly accused america of not striving hard enough to eliminate these groups or even seeking to reach an agreement with them.
iran–north korea relations