<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><span><div><span>Dear Jiyul,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>thanks a lot for this valuable information! I may add that Park Chung Hee's "The Country, the Revolution, and I" adopted a sort of non-committal attitude toward the Arab-Israeli dispute in the sense that he did express admiration of Israel's well-organized efforts to create a developed country in the middle of the desert, but at the same time he listed Egyptian President Nasser as one of his role models (Kemal Ataturk of Turkey and Ayub Khan of Pakistan being two others). This was quite in accordance with his diplomacy in the early and mid-1960s, for as early as this period, he sought to establish contacts with as many Third World states as possible. In 1961, both South and North Korea asked Egypt for the establishment of ambassadorial relations, but at
that stage, the Egyptians felt it sufficient to establish only consulates-general. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Alon Levkowitz wrote that the Israeli embassy in Seoul was closed in 1978 (see Levkowitz, "The Republic of Korea and the Middle East: Economics, Diplomacy, and Security," KEI Academic Papers Series 5:6, August 2010).</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>All the best,</span></div><div><span>Balazs Szalontai</span></div><div><span>Kwangwoon University, Dept of International Studies</span></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px;
padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jiyul Kim <jiyulkim@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 29 March 2013, 11:23<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [KS] ROK-Israel<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1974589898">
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On additional related comment to follow up on my last - the MOFAT
archive also contains the rather sordid record of ROK-Israeli
relations. I can't go into detail as it's been a while since I saw
the documents but essentially ROK dragged its heels in establishing
a proper diplomatic mission physically located in Israel for so long
after Israel set up its embassy that Israel threatened to close it
embassy. It finally did in 1972 (the last record in my research time
period) and reopened only in 1992. <br>
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The records make it clear that the situation was a mathematical:
there were many Arab countries whose UN vote were sought while
Israel only had one. This despite the fact that Israel was the first
nation to offer assistance when the Korean War started, helped in
starting the ROK defense industry in the late 60s,its fortified
kibbutz system served as a model for strategic villages set up in
Kangwondo in the late 60s-early 70s, and served as an inspirational
national model for Park Chung Hee - a small country surrounded by
big enemies but survived, became strong and rich and determined its
own fate. The exact result Park wanted for SK as he often invoked in
his speeches. The oil situation in the 1970s with the heavy industry
program Park began probably exacerbated the divide since SK needed
Middle Eastern oil.<br>
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JK<br>
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<div class="yiv1974589898moz-cite-prefix">On 3/28/2013 3:45 PM, Yoo Kwang-On
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Documents on the Two Koreas and the Third World</span></u></b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="yiv1974589898MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The North
Korea International Documentation Project has recently
obtained and translated more than sixty documents from
Romanian and Hungarian archives on the struggle between North
Korea and South Korea to gain diplomatic recognition from
countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin
America. The documents are being made available to students,
researchers, and interested readers through a collection
entitled <b><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://digitalarchive.org/collection/146/the-two-koreas-and-the-third-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Two
Koreas and the Third World</a> </b>on the Wilson Center
Digital Archive as part of a broader project on the history of
inter-Korean relations supported by the ROK Ministry of
Unification.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
inter-Korean struggle took on global dimensions in the late
1970s and early 1980s following the failure of the
inter-Korean dialogue (see the collections on the <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://www.digitalarchive.org/collection/124/inter-korean-dialogue-1971-1972" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inter-Korean
Dialogue, 1971-1972</a> and the <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://www.digitalarchive.org/collection/126/demise-of-detente-in-korea-1973-1975" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Demise of
Detente in Korea, 1973-1975</a> for further information).
Both Koreas sought allies and supporters across the globe and
particularly among countries active in the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM). In exchange for diplomatic recognition, North
Korea and South Korea often provided economic aid, technical
assistance, and military support to countries in Africa, Asia,
the Middle East, and Latin America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To
explore the documents, click here to be redirected to the
collection <b><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://digitalarchive.org/collection/146/the-two-koreas-and-the-third-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Two
Koreas and the Third World</a> </b>on the Wilson Center
Digital Archive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
translation of these documents and others has been generously
supported by the ROK Ministry of Unification.</span></div>
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