In 1976, members of the Peoples Temple, the infamous cult led by Jim Jones, moved from California to the Caribbean coastal nation of Guyana to create a socialist utopia.

The tragic ending of this failed social experiment is well-known – 909 members of the cult committed mass suicide on November 18, 1978 by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid – but many do not know that, in the Guyanese jungle, there was a little slice of North Korea.

GUYANA-NORTH KOREA RELATIONS

The Guyanese-North Korean connection begins with the then-Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. After rigging elections, Burnham in 1970 declared that Guyana