As 2018 Approaches, Mugabe Considers Re-engaging North Korea, A State Who Trained Fifth Brigade Gukurahundi

Zimbabwe might consider establishing diplomatic ties with North Korea, President Robert Mugabe has said.

He however said the country has lost connection with North Korea which is under a firm rule of Kim Jong-un.

Mugabe said to reporters in Japan on Tuesday: “We have lost connection with North Korea. If North Korea would want to re-establish connections, I suppose we reciprocate.

“We do not hate any country or distaste any people. We make friends with those who want to be friends with us but it doesn’t mean that we should follow all their ways. Friendship is friendship on terms that are reciprocal.”

North Korea relations with Zimbabwe bring to fore the Gukurahundi genocide in  Matabeland province.

Mugabe ordered the Fifth Brigade, which had been trained by the North Korean army and had a number of North Korean officers serving with it, to root them out.

The Fifth Brigade, like Mugabe’s government and administration, was mostly Shona-speaking; Matabeleland is populated mostly by Ndebeles, the descendants of Zulus who came to the area in the 1830s.

The Fifth Brigade set up a concentration camp in Antelope, where they systematically killed their prisoners
-Source: Byo24News