Korea: April 27, 2000

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North Korea has announced that it has sent military advisors to the Congo. The civil war raging there has attracted mercenaries from many nations, especially former communist ones. In the 1980s, North Korea supplied hundreds of military advisors to the government of Zimbabwe to train a special brigade to put down unrest among people (of a different tribe than Zimbabwe's leadership.) The special brigade put down the rebellion with considerable brutality. 

 

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