<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Listmembers may be interested in a real treasure-trove of newly published documents on North Korean foreign affairs, published in the latest issue (no 14/15) of the Bulletin of the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP). These cover mainly the Korean War and early post-war years of the DPRK; including "fraternal" - sometimes not very - relations with not only the USSR and China, but also East Germany, Hungary and others.<BR>
(Many thanks to Jon Halliday for this alert, which I hasten to share more widely.)<BR>
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These are the articles in question, all based on newly mined archives:<BR>
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New Evidence on North Korea<BR>
Introduction Kathryn Weathersby p. 5<BR>
Sino-North Korean Conflict and its Resolution during the Korean War <BR>
By Shen Zhihua p. 9<BR>
Weathering the Sino-Soviet Conflict: The GDR and North Korea, 1949-1989<BR>
By Bernd Schäfer p. 25<BR>
"You Have No Political Line of Your Own:" Kim Il Sung and the Soviets, 1953-1964 <BR>
By Balázs Szalontai p. 87<BR>
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New Evidence on Cold War Crises<BR>
Russian Documents on the Korean War: 1950-53 Introduction by James G. Hershberg<BR>
and translations by Vladislav Zubok p. 369<BR>
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The good news is that all these are fully and freely accessible. The bad news is that they are on several different PDF files, some massive. Your computer may get indigestion, as mine did. (I believe print versions are also available.) Here are the details and URLs:<BR>
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CWIHP homepage: http://cwihp.si.edu<BR>
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Contents list of Bulletin: http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/aa-intro.pdf<BR>
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Main articles (Shen, Schäfer, Szalontai): http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/ACF2837.pdf<BR>
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Russian documents… http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/e-cold_war_crises.pdf<BR>
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Besides the above, CWIHP's earlier documents and debates on the Korean War are also well worth looking at. See: http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=library.Collection&class=New%20Evidence%20on%20the%20Korean%20War<BR>
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Happy hunting!<BR>
Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
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