This is CBS, I Am The World.

I'm John Bachelors.

Burkina Faso, a small landlocked state in Africa, but at the same time, the focus of a revelation

of gun running by North Korea and an illustration perfectly of a book of some years standing,

but critical to understand in this post-Ukraine war world.

Both Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, enabling violence

and instability by Professor Bruce Bechtel of Angelo State University, long at DOD, analyst

of Korea, and the author of this book about proliferation.

Bruce, Professor of Very Good Evening to You, I begin with some facts about Burkina Faso,

a small state of 21 million people estimate, and it's landlocked, and recently it's gone

through a series of disruptions because of so-called terrorist attacks, where jihadists

were spilled over from Mali and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

And also because its government is now, you'd have to say, military-based, young people

with weapons and flak jackets appearing on videos and television saying, we are the

law, but the news is even more peculiar, which is why I need your help.

Here we go.

This is out of Cameroon, but the report is about Africa.

Burkina Faso plans to resume diplomatic relations with North Korea, according to the foreign

ministry of Burkina Faso.

The decision will allow the two countries, quote, to maintain exemplary bilateral cooperation

in several areas, this according to the foreign minister of Burkina Faso, Olivia Ruamba.

The West African nation suspended relations with North Korea in 2017 to conform to UN Security

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