Seung Hwan Ryu successfully defended his thesis in History today with summa cum laude: "Self-reliance Internationalism: North Korea-Tanzania Cooperation and the Search for an Alternative World Order". Congratulations!

Many thanks also to his supervisors and the committee members: Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Eun-Jeung Lee, Sönke Kunkel, Eric Burton and Axel Rüdiger.