NKIDP documents referenced in Financial Times article on North Korean nuclear program
Materials obtained and disseminated by the North Korea International Documentation Project were referred to in an article by Aidan Foster-Carter in the Financial Times.
Materials obtained and disseminated by the North Korea International Documentation Project on the origins of the North Korean nuclear program were referred to in an article by Aidan Foster-Carter in the Financial Times.
Foster-Carter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea, Leeds University, wrote that "Documents from Pyongyang's erstwhile communist allies - none of whom liked or trusted Kim - collated by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington reveal that, as early as the 1960s, North Korea evinced a keen interest in nuclear technologies."
To view the full story, please click here to be redirected to Aidan Foster-Carter, "The view from Kim's bunker is of a nuclear world," Financial Times, February 18, 2013.
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