South Korea established official diplomatic relations on Wednesday with Cuba, one of North Korea's Cold War-era allies.
With their United Nations representatives exchanging letters in New York, the two countries have agreed to open diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, the ministry said in a statement.
Cuba recognized South Korea in 1949, but exchanges between the two countries stopped after the socialist revolution in Cuba in 1959, according to the South Korean News Agency.
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