A recently published book –  “From North Korea to Budapest: North Korean Students in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956” – looks at the role of North Korean students in the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution in Hungary.

Using Hungarian archival sources and oral history interviews, Professor Mózes Csoma of Eötvös Loránd University investigated the assistance given by North Korean students to their Hungarian classmates who went out on the streets to fight against Soviet troops.

These North Korean students, many of whom had military experience from the Korean War, taught their Hungarian friends how to use machine guns and mortars against the