News
NKIDP e-Dossier no. 2 “North Korean Pilots in the Skies over Vietnam” in the Media
Dec 05, 2011Roundup of news articles reporting on NKIDP e-Dossier No. 2 from media outlets in Korea and across Asia (includes both English and Korean articles). UPDATE: New Vietnamese news coverage added.
Donga Ilbo and Joongang Ilbo publish articles on inter-Korean relations in the 1970s based on NKIDP documents
Nov 08, 2011Donga Ilbo and Joongang Ilbo published articles on the inter-Korean economic competition in the 1970s based on newly published NKIDP documents. Based on conversations former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung had with his Romanian and Bulgarian counterparts, the articles reveal Kim's mistaken belief that DPRK's economy would never be overtaken by that of the ROK.
HAPP Director Christian Ostermann is featured in the Kyunghyang Shinmun
Oct 28, 2011On October 24, 2011, Kyunghyang Shinmun, a South Korean newspaper, featured a report on the publication of The Rise and Fall of Détente on the Korean Peninsula, 1970-1974, the newest addition to the History and Public Policy Critical Oral History Conference Series.
Spring NKIDP Internship Opportunities
Oct 20, 2011The North Korea International Documentation Project is currently accepting internship applications for Spring 2012.
NKIDP intern Charles Kraus is published in the Journal of Cold War Studies
Sep 07, 2011The Bonds of Brotherhood: New Evidence on Sino–North Korean Exchanges, 1950–1954
Korea Foundation Junior Scholars Program is featured in the Korean-language version of the Economist
Aug 25, 2011
CWIHP welcomes new Public Policy Scholar Shen Zhihua
Jul 18, 2011CWIHP is pleased to welcome Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Shen Zhihua. His project is entitled "Uncertain Partners: A History of Sino-DPRK Relations, 1949-1992."
Cold War International History Project Senior Research Scholar Bernd Schaefer interviewed by DailyNK
Jun 02, 2011Bernd Schaefer discussed the links between the North Korean security service and the East German Stasi in the 1980s, particularly in preparations for the Pyongyang World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989.
CWIHP Off-site Workshop
May 02, 2011The workshop Interkit aims to shed new light on the mechanisms of cooperation and conflicts within the socialist world, and to answer the question: how differences in political and cultural traditions and geopolitical locations interacted under the influence of the Soviet Union.
NKIDP Coordinator James Person was interviewed by the Korean newspaper Focus
Mar 31, 2011In the interview James Person suggested that based upon his research, Washington's reliance on Beijing to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis is a result of America's failure to understand North Korea.