![]() ![]() ![]() In Eldridge Cleaver, then a leading figure in the party and married to Kathleen Cleaver, they found an eager ally. Photograph: Lee Lockwood/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image Photograph: Lee Lockwood/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image “North Korea at this point was really on a global publicity campaign, even putting adverts in the New York Times and Washington Post promoting juche and peaceful reunification,” says Young.īlack Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver, in exile. The alliance also demonstrates the North’s long term interest in cultivating high profile international visitors and the Panthers’ search for support around the world. At the time it appeared to be an east Asian success story, outperforming the South. It is a reminder that North Korea was not always “an economic basket case”, as declared by the Obama administration. The ties between the two are more than a historical curiosity, says Benjamin Young, a contributor to NK News whose Masters research at the State University of New York: the college at Brockport, uncovered surprising details of the relationship. ![]() On the other was “hermit kingdom” North Korea, with its ideological tenet of ‘juche’ or self-reliance a country which then seemed something of a “Stalinist Switzerland”, recalls former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver, now a law professor at Yale. ![]()
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