The North Koreans left Botswana shortly after they arrived, apparently due to inciting the constables against their superiors, and trying to convince them to seek a more democratic form of police work.

[6] In modern times, North Korean constructors from the Mansudae Overseas Projects state company have built the Three Dikgosi Monument, located in Gaborone, depicting three tribal chiefs.

[8] The Botswana government suspended bilateral cooperation with the DPRK on 26 March 2013 due to concerns with the human rights situation in North Korea.

[11] In October 2015 while President Ian Khama was in Seoul, he was interviewed by Yonhap News and there proclaimed that they had no interest in diplomatic relations with North Korea any longer, referring to the violation of human rights and the menace to the peace of the Far East by the military dictatorship.

"North's leaders look like living in the Stone Age," Khama expressed his view on the country notorious for human rights violations.