Cuba–North Korea relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Cuba–North Korea relations', '<entity_1>': '29 August 1960', '<entity_2>': 'North Korea', '<entity_3>': 'Cuba'}
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<entity_0> (Korean: 꾸바-조선민주주의인민공화국 관계, Spanish: Relaciones cubanas-coreanas del norte) are the bilateral relations between <entity_3> and <entity_2>. <entity_3> has had diplomatic relations with <entity_2> since <entity_1>. <entity_3> maintains an embassy in Pyongyang and <entity_2> maintains an embassy in Havana. <entity_3> has been one of <entity_2>'s most consistent allies. During the Cold War, <entity_2> and <entity_3> forged a bond of solidarity based on their militant positions opposing American power. Che Guevara, then a Cuban government minister, visited <entity_2> in 1960 and proclaimed it a model for <entity_3> to follow. <entity_3> was one of the few countries that showed solidarity with <entity_2> by boycotting the Seoul Olympics in 1988. In 2013, a North Korean ship, the Chong Chon Gang, was searched while traveling through the Panama Canal and found to be carrying weapons from <entity_3>, apparently to be repaired in <entity_2> and returned. In January 2016, <entity_2> and <entity_3> established a barter trade system.
['bilateral relation']