Did you know that Africa’s largest statue is made by North Koreans? Or that diplomats from the closed country have been caught repeatedly smuggling ivory out of Africa? That this is all part of North Korea’s advanced Africa strategy?

We may not hear of this geopolitical game so often, but it exists, it’s extensive - and perhaps even rational.

Planet Mundus talks to a Guinean student who was forced to spend five years of his youth in North Korea. We tell the story of what North Korea is up to in Africa.