French comedian Dieudonne, who has been convicted of racist and anti-Semitic comments in the past, announces that he plans to travel to North Korea next month.
Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala will travel there on September 9 along with far-right writer Alain Soral, who has already visited Pyongyang to “work for peace,” the comedian says in a video posted on YouTube last week.
“At a time when the United States is organizing military exercises on the Korean peninsula, I believe we have to take action,” Dieudonne says, adding that he would take part in a “peace festival” in Pyongyang.
The comedian has often made headlines, most notably with his trademark “quenelle” hand gesture that looks like an inverted Nazi salute, but which he insists is merely anti-establishment.
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