Events
NKIDP receives over 2,000 pages of new Romanian documents on the inner-workings and foreign relations of North Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.
The collection brings together minutes of conversations between North Korean leaders and Romanian officials with daily communications from the Romanian embassy in Pyongyang between the critical period 1966-1968.
Summer 2013 Internship Opportunities with NKIDP
The North Korea International Documentation Project is currently accepting internship applications for Summer 2013. The
application Deadline is 31 March 2013
Did Stalin Lure the United States into the Korean War? New Evidence on the Origins of the Korean War
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 1, "Did Stalin Lure the United States into the Korean War? New Evidence on the Origins of the Korean War," features a telegram from Stalin to Czechoslovakian President Klement Gottwald which raises new questions about the origins of the Korean War. Did Stalin purposefully seek to entangle the United States in a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Did Stalin expect an intervention by the Chinese communists from virtually the beginning of the conflict? Two experts, Donggil Kim and William Stueck, provide an initial assessment of this potentially significant new finding.
The Soviet Union and the North Korean Seizure of the USS Pueblo: Evidence from the Russian Archives
CWIHP Working Paper #47 by Sergey S. Radchenko
Moynihan’s Moment & North Korean Sabre Rattling
We look back at the legacy of the late great Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan with the help of Gil Troy, author of Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism, and Maura Moynihan, daughter of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
North Korean History Offers Insight into the Current System
Interview with former NKIDP Scholar Kihl-jae Ryoo