From its inception to the modern day, Mansudae Overseas has created monuments, sculptures, and government facilities in the style of socialist realism.
[4] During the Cold War, North Korea joined the Third World and the Eastern Bloc (especially China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union) in condemning colonialism in Africa and providing support to revolutionary and anti-colonial movements across the continent.
They provided several military and civil assistance programs to some of Africa's more radical states, including Guinea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mali, and Tanzania.
Soldiers of the Zimbabwe African National Union were invited to a hidden camp near Pyongyang, where North Korean military officers trained them with explosives.
[8] Militants affiliated with the African National Congress received training from North Korean agents in camps hidden inside Angola.
It is estimated that 3,000 North Korean troops and a thousand advisers took part in the Angolan Civil War in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting the communist MPLA and fighting against the apartheid South African military.
[9] Ibrahim Abatcha and his revolutionary movement, a synthesis between Maoism and Islamism, which in 1966 he ended up organizing in Sudan as FROLINAT, had close ties with Pyongyang and had North Korean help for its establishment.
[16] North Korea dispatched a team of karate martial arts instructors to provide the military of the Gambia with self-defence training.
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president since 1986, has said that he learned basic Korean from Kim Il Sung during visits to North Korea.
In 2016 Uganda stated that it was ending this cooperation due to United Nations sanctions against North Korea's nuclear weapons program.