Benjamin R. Young, Ph.D. has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dakota State University and the U.S. Naval War College. He is currently a Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Fellow at the RAND Corporation. He is the author of the book "Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World" (Stanford University Press, 2021).
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DPRK backing for an ultra-leftist insurgency in 1971 ended in the expulsion of their diplomats
The tragic case of Otto Warmbier confirms that the DPRK cannot be changed through tourism
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Many of the New Left found common ground with the anti-imperialism of Kim Il Sung
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