Tycho van der Hoog in podcast New Books Network

Former PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog was interviewed for the podcast New Books Network about the book based on his PhD research Comrades Beyond the Cold War. North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa. In it he examines the relations between victorious southern African liberation movements and North Korea, from the 1960s to the present. He explains why African presidents sang and danced at parties in Pyongyang, and why North Korean books were translated into Swahili and Afrikaans. He reveals how African soldiers were trained in guerrilla warfare by North Korean instructors, and how North Korean labourers construct monuments in Africa in the shape of AK-47s. And he explores the question of how revolutionary regimes, motivated by a need for survival, work together to defy the global order. 

For the podcats New Books Network Tycho van der Hoog was interviewed by Dr. Miranda Melcher (PhD, Defense Studies, Kings College, London) whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

Listen to the podcast.