Racism in North Korea

Racism in North Korea is a phenomenon that is relatively poorly understood. The North Korean media and government's usage of Korean ethnic nationalism's race-based concepts such as "pure blood" has been described as racist.
A classic North Korean short story, "Wolves", by Han Sorya, has also been described as racist. According to the documents from Hungarian and East German records, on March 28, 1965, Lázaro Vigoa Aranguren, the ambassador of Cuba to North Korea, was leading a delegation to visit Pyongyang and tried to take a picture of Korean War ruins, when he was subsequently beaten for being a black person, which was soon followed by an apology from Kim Il Sung. A similar incident occurred in the 1960s when a WPK party secretary delivered a speech and proceeded to say that marrying foreigners was a “crime against the Korean race”, shocking the members of the visiting East German delegation in North Korea. In 2014, North Korean state media published a racist rant directed at US President Barack Obama, comparing him to a "monkey".