From Reuters:

North Korea’s number two leader is expected to sign trade and defence deals with Uganda where he is due to make a rare visit this month, Uganda’s international affairs minister said on Sunday. Kim Yong-nam, the president of the presidium of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, is expected to start a three-day visit to the east African nation on March 27.

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Oryem said Uganda would start exporting goods such as mushrooms and silk to the Asian country, which has sent officials to help train Ugandan police and presidential security staff. North Korea is one of Uganda’s main suppliers of military hardware, and that cooperation would be enhanced, he added.

I visited Uganda in 2005, but did not have time to look for the North Korean embassy. A view representative of Kampala’s suburbs:

This otherwise unremarkable view of Lake Victoria from the road caused my driver to be pulled over and for a large sweaty man with an AK-47 to ask for my “papers.” I didn’t know we were near any sensitive facilities:

Another good reason not go to swimming in Lake Victoria is schistosomiasis:

Not sure how it compares to North Korea’s Taedonggang beer, but Nile Special is not too shabby as most breweries in Africa are run by Europeans and the taste usually surpassed American domestic beers: