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About the Author: Benjamin R. Young (Dakota State University)

Benjamin R. Young is an Assistant Professor in History/Political Science at Dakota State University (Madison, South Dakota). In Fall 2021, he will be starting a new position as Assistant Professor of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) in the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. He has published scholarly articles on North Korea's foreign relations in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Journal of Northeast Asian History, British Association of Korean Studies Papers, International History Review and the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. He was a 2018-2019 CSIS/USC NextGen US-Korea Scholar and has written pieces for The Washington Post, The Guardian, Reuters, and NKNews.org.

About the Book: Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World

Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and completed building projects in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a unified anti-imperialist front that stretched from the boulevards of Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the beaches of Cuba. This book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula, ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals. Based on multinational and multi-archival research, this book examines the intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world.