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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear Jakub,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Thanks for posting. What an interesting topic!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>You probably know already, or everyone will reply</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>to your query and tell you, about
<STRONG>CWIHP:</STRONG>the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Cold War International History Project:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409">http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>(See the post below to this list from 2004, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>although NB the </FONT><FONT size=4>eddress has changed since
then.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>CWIHP has compiled at least two fascinating </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>collections on </FONT><FONT size=4>North Korea </FONT><FONT
size=4>in the early years,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>drawing mainly on reports from various east</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>European embassies in Pyongyang at the time:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=North%20Korea%20in%20the%20Cold%20War">http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=North%20Korea%20in%20the%20Cold%20War</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War">http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>See also</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=230972&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=474672">http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=230972&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=474672</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I am copying this also to a few scholars with
similar</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>research interests, who may be able to help
further.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Finally, I take the liberty of copying in the
Association</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>of Scholars Concerned about Korea (asck.org). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Judging from recent posts, there </FONT><FONT size=4>are
</FONT><FONT size=4>one or two people </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>on that list who could benefit from reading and
pondering</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>CWIHP's archives, though it may discomfit them
somewhat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>For your part, I wonder what you would make of
this:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.nlg.org/korea/2003delegation_report.html">http://www.nlg.org/korea/2003delegation_report.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Your broader research area is not yet history, it
appears!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I hope this is helpful. Good luck!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Easter greetings from England,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Recent op-eds,
etc:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">New! </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">“Keep our powder dry for now – but prepare
for a bumpy landing”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Scotsman</I>, 6 April 2009. <A
href="http://news.scotsman.com/world/North-Korea-Analysis-Keep-our.5143520.jp"><FONT
color=#800080>http://news.scotsman.com/world/North-Korea-Analysis-Keep-our.5143520.jp</FONT></A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">New!</SPAN></I><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"> “</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">Fortress Korea remains off limits”. Letter,
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Financial Times</I>, 1 April
2009<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><A
href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/296522aa-1e56-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#800080
size=3>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/296522aa-1e56-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html</FONT></A><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">“</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt">Kim’s last chance to reform – and save his
country”. Comment, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Financial Times</I>,
11 February 2009<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><A
href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c6d6fde-f77e-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c6d6fde-f77e-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>______________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>KS] "Inside North Korea": CWIHP Publishes Internal Documents
on North Korea</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><B>COLDWAR Project</B> <A
title='[KS] "Inside North Korea": CWIHP Publishes Internal Documents on
North Korea'
href="mailto:Koreanstudies%40koreaweb.ws?Subject=%5BKS%5D%20%22Inside%20North%20Korea%22%3A%20CWIHP%20Publishes%20Internal%20Documents%20on%0A%09North%20Korea&In-Reply-To=">COLDWAR1
at WWIC.SI.EDU </A><BR><I>Thu Jul 15 11:07:05 EDT 2004</I> </DIV>
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</DIV><!--beginarticle--><PRE>The Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project </PRE><PRE>(Christian F. Ostermann, director) has published dozens of formerly </PRE><PRE>secret internal documents from the archives of North Korea's </PRE><PRE>former Communist allies for the 1950-1988 period.</PRE><PRE>
The documents are the result of a special effort by the Project to </PRE><PRE>mine the archives of North Korea's former allies. The CWIHP Korea </PRE><PRE>Initiative has been systematically exploring East European, Russian </PRE><PRE>and (to a lesser extent) Chinese archives for insights into </PRE><PRE>perceptions and policymaking in Pyongyang. The Korea Initiative </PRE><PRE>presented its first findings at a workshop hosted in conjunction with</PRE><PRE> George Washington University in March 2003 ("North Korea's Crisis </PRE><PRE>Behavior, Past and Present: New Light from the Archives of its Former</PRE><PRE> Allies"), at which leading Korea specialists from academia, research</PRE><PRE> centers, and government agencies in the United States, the Republic </PRE><PRE>of Korea and Eastern Europe provided a first analysis of the </PRE><PRE>significance of the new documents on North Korea. </PRE><PRE>
The newly accessible documentation bears on such questions as North </PRE><PRE>Korea's reaction to aid and external pressures, the internal workings </PRE><PRE>of the Kim regime and the ideological prism of the North Korean </PRE><PRE>leadership.</PRE><PRE>Included in the sensational collection are transcripts between </PRE><PRE>Kim Il-Sung and Communist leaders, as well as dozens of embassy </PRE><PRE>reports from European embassies in Pyongyang. </PRE><PRE>
The documents can be downloaded at no charge at </PRE><PRE><A href="http://cwihp.si.edu,/">http://cwihp.si.edu,</A> or a copy of the most recent CWIHP Bulletin </PRE><PRE>can be obtained by emailing your full mail address to </PRE><PRE><A href="http://koreaweb.ws/mailman/listinfo/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws">coldwar1 at si.edu.</A> Please feel free to distribute this message.</PRE><PRE>
Christian F. Ostermann,
Director, Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson Center
<A href="http://cwihp.si.edu/">http://cwihp.si.edu</A>
</PRE></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>_______________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 4/8/2009 13:26:32 GMT Standard Time, postdali@gmail.com
writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dear All
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>It is my first time to write on this list. Please forgive me any
misunderstandings or mistakes.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I am a Polish student in the Sociology Faculty of the Academy of Korean
Studies, Bundang in South Korea. I am writing an M.D. thesis about the social
influence and reception of the DPRKorea and Kimilsungism in Poland in the
1950s. It seems to be a very narrow topic yet it is still interesting to track
the materials in the stalinist Poland, and those after the 1956, which show
Pyongyang's communist government.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I have searched quite a bit and found materials and historical sources,
as well as the classic texts (books about North Korea in statu nascendi), yet
still I wonder maybe somebody knows any sources and/or articles treating about
the DPRKorea in the socialist countries, its policy or propaganda, the way the
DPRK was trying to achieve the goal of reconstruction of the country and
become independent of foreign influences, and presenting itself
abroad. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I shall be very thankful for any suggestions concerning my thesis
topic.</DIV>
<DIV>Best regards</DIV>
<DIV>Jakub Paprocki</DIV>
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