Posts Tagged ‘Kim Il-sung’
RG242 Files: The Day Kim Il-sung’s Voice Fell Silent
Pyongyang’s early radio station blacked out part of a speech by the North Korean leader, resulting in dismissals from the Party, and tighter controls.
After Berlin: Assessing UK Foreign Office Talks on Korean Unification in the 1990s
FCO archive release shows division on reunification discussions between ROK Embassy, and British officials and scholars soon after Soviet collapse.
Beyond CRINK: Southeast Asia in North Korea’s New Diplomacy
Recent flurry of high-level contact with Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia points to expansion of DPRK diplomacy beyond China and Russia.
The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea
As the smoke clears from Kaesong and succession talk swirls around Kim Yo-jong, Sino-NK revisits one of the key foundations of North Korean history education.
The Sino-DPRK Split and Origins of US-DPRK Bilateralism
Using archival material from the Woodrow Wilson Center, Eungseo Kim dissects the politics of Sino-US détente in 1972. He concludes that Pyongyang’s grievance against Beijing for its refusal to push preconditions for Sino-US diplomatic normalization was why Pyongyang decided it needed to deal directly with the United States.





