The Republic of Korea and the Republic of Cuba normalized diplomatic ties that
remained broken for a considerable period of time. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Korea announced on February 14 that “The Republic of Korea and the
Republic of Cuba agreed to establish ambassador-level diplomatic relations between
the two countries through an exchange of diplomatic notes between the Permanent
Missions to the United Nations of the two countries in New York, the United States.”
South Korea and Cuba established diplomatic relations in 1949 but exchanges between
the two countries were cut off since Cuba’s socialist revolution. It took 65 years for
the two countries to agree on restoring diplomatic relations.