North Korea and the argentinian armed organizations. Between the story and action

Abstract

The historical memory that recounts the development and actions of the main armed groups in Argentina, mainly Montoneros and the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores-Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRT-ERP), has Cuba as the inspiring beacon and training ground of the hundreds of militants who fought the last Argentine dictatorships. However, access to new documentation and accounts have made it possible -at least in one case to reveal contacts between Argentine guerrillas and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the search for military training and arms supply. This historical novelty allows us to dimension a broader character of the Argentine armed groups and a more internationalist policy of the DPRK within a much more complex panorama in the development of resistance to totalitarian governments in South America.