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The other day I noticed that Aidan Foster-Carter had posted a fascinating propaganda video of Kim Il-sung’s 1975 tour of Romania, Bulgaria, Algeria, Mauritania, and the then-Yugoslavia, featuring, among other things, footage of the Great Leader dancing in the streets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgX8Je-BRrE&feature=player_embedded
Balázs Szalontai, who actually knows what he is talking about adds, “This is funny enough, but even funnier is the fact that in North Korea itself, the newsreel about Kim Il Sung's 1975 visit in Mauritania was withdrawn from circulation as early as 1976, because in that year, Mauritania, incensed by Pyongyang's recognition of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara), expelled all DPRK technical experts and half of the North Korean diplomatic staff.”
