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The Origins of North Korea-Vietnam Solidarity: The Vietnam War and the DPRK

Drawing on diverse sources from around the world, Benjamin R. Young argues that Kim Il Sung inserted North Korea into the Vietnam War in order to strengthen his own international reputation and to consolidate his domestic control.
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A snapshot of a 1965 conversation between Kim Il Sung and a North Vietnamese leader.

The Origins of North Korea-Vietnam Solidarity: The Vietnam War and the DPRK

By: Benjamin R. Young

Vladimir Putin’s Stasi ID: A Press Sensation and Its Historical Reality

A photo ID card issued to a young Vladimir V. Putin by the Stasi. Source: BStU, MfS, BV Dresden, HA KuSch, Nr. 7216, pp. 4a-4b.

The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962

The Handley Page H.P.67 Hastings, the same aircraft used by the RAF in missions over Laos in 1962, pictured in 1977. Source: Mike Freer/Wikimedia Commons.

The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962

By: Priscilla Roberts

New Russian Evidence on Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1960-61

Fidel Castro at the UN General Assembly

New Russian Evidence on Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1960-61

By: James G. Hershberg

The Origins of Japan’s 'Nuclear Allergy'

A behind the scenes shot of the 1954 Tōhō film Gojira, showing the original Godzilla as an ancient radiation-breathing monster awakened by the hydrogen bomb. Released months after the Lucky Dragon accident during the Castle Bravo test, the movie spoke to Japan's victimization by nuclear weapons." Source: Wikimedia Commons.

North Korea and the Stasi Archives

A group of North Koreans visit a borough in East Berlin in 1989. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0215-032.
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The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War. // Read more

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    The Cold War International History Project Working Paper Series is designed to provide a speedy outlet for historians who have gained access to newly-available archives and sources and would like to share their results.

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    Cold War International History Project “e-Dossiers” present new and important accessions to the CWIHP Digital Archive. New documents are added to the Digital Archive and introduced by leading scholars of Cold War history, who provide background and context for this new archival evidence.

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    The Cold War International History Project's flagship publication.

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    Cold War International History Project books published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press.

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    Large collections of documents complied by the Cold War International History Project for scholarly conferences and events.

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Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
Charles Kraus
Senior Program Associate, History and Public Policy Program
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Kian Byrne
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