<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br>

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">NKIDP is pleased to announce the release of
e-Dossier No. 5, “<b>New Romanian Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS <i>Pueblo</i>
Incident</b>” and the addition of 28 new documents to its online Digital
Archive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The e-Dossier contains 28 translated
documents from Romanian archives on two of the most serious flashpoints since
the signing of the 1953 Korean War Armistice: the failed North Korean commando
attack and attempted assassination of Park Chung Hee on January 21, 1968,
commonly known as the Blue House Raid, and North Korea’s seizure of an American
intelligence vessel, the USS <i>Pueblo</i>, on January 23, 1968.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The Romanian documents open an exciting new
window into socialist bloc policies and perspectives on the Blue House Raid and
the <i>Pueblo</i> crisis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The e-Dossier features introductions from <b>Mitchell
Lerner</b>, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for
Korean Studies at The Ohio State University and author of <i>The Pueblo
Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy</i> (University
of Kansas Press, 2002), and <b>Jong-Dae Shin</b>, professor at the University
of North Korean Studies in Seoul.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">To view e-Dossier No. 5, “</span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">New Romanian
Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS <i>Pueblo</i> Incident,</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">” visit </span><a href="http://bit.ly/JrihzQ" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">http://bit.ly/JrihzQ</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Charles Kraus</span></p>



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History and Public Policy Program</span></p>

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