The Two Koreas_ A Contemporary History - Don Oberdorfer [254]
At the Russian embassy, Beijing, Ambassador Igor Rogachev and Minister Sergei Goncharov.
Mike Chinoy, CNN correspondent, Beijing.
IN RUSSIA:
Former president Mikhail Gorbachev; former national security adviser Anatoly Chernyayev; former foreign minister Alexander Bessmertnykh; former ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin; Sergei Tarasenko, former Foreign Ministry official; Vadim Tkachenko, former director of Korean affairs of the Central Committee of the CPSU; Igor Rakhmanin, former Asian affairs director of the Central Committee of the CPSU; Gorbachev aides Karen Brutents, Georgi Ostraumov, and Pavel Palazchenko.
Yevgeni Primakov, then chief of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency, now foreign minister; Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Panov; Yevgeni Afanasyev, Valery Denisov, and Vladimir Rakhmanin of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Mikhail Titerenko, director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, and Roald Seleviev of the Institute.
Vitaly Ignatenko, general director of ITAR-Tass news agency; Tass correspondent Vladimir Nadashkevich; journalists Yuri Sigov and Alexander Blatkovsky.
IN JAPAN:
Kawashima Yutaka, director general of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Okazaki Hisahiko, former Foreign Ministry official; Ambassador Endo Tetsuya, negotiator with North Korea; Takeuchi Yukio, deputy chief of mission, Washington.
Takemura Masayoshi, member of Japanese Diet.
Okonogi Masao of Keio University; Major General Tsukamoto Katsuichi of the Research Institute for Peace and Security.
IN VIENNA:
Director General Hans Blix of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Dmitri Perricos, director of East Asian safeguards operations; Olli Heinonen, chief inspector for North Korea; Willy Theis, former chief inspector for North Korea.
John Fitch, U.S. ambassador to international organizations; Mike Lawrence and Marvin Peterson, U.S. mission officials.
IN GERMANY:
Hans Maretzki, former ambassador of the GDR to North Korea; Gunter Unterbeck, former GDR diplomat; Ann-Katrin Becker, former correspondent of the GDR news agency in Beijing.
I also am grateful to several people whose insights were important but who asked that their names not be used, even in acknowledgment, and quite a few people who took the trouble to read and correct major chunks of the manuscript. You know who you are, and you have my thanks.
Finally, I would like to thank those whose work was essential to the writing and editing of this book: Tong Kim, for translations from Korean; Mary Drake, for transcription of interviews; Zhaojin Ji, the secretary of the SAIS Asia program; Joy Harris, my literary agent; Bill Patrick, formerly of Addison-Wesley, who saw the merit in the book, and his colleague Sharon Broll, a wonderful editor who found ways to make it better; and my wife, Laura, my own best editor and inspiration.
NOTES AND SOURCES
ccording to an entry in the spiral-bound notebooks I kept as a i journal, I first began thinking about a book on Korea in 1988, about the same time I began work on The Turn, my history of U.S.- Soviet relations at the end of the cold war. I realized even in that early note that this book would have to be a postretirement project, since it would take much time and travel that would be incompatible with full-time work for The Washington Post. While there were a few interviews earlier, work began seriously after my retirement in May 1993. Over the next four years, I conducted more than 450 interviews in a variety of countries, consulted books and archives, and obtained new information under the Freedom of Information Act. With a few confidential exceptions, the principal interviewees and sources of materials are mentioned in the Acknowledgments.
As in my earlier books, I am providing here information on the sources for The Two Koreas,