The Two Koreas_ A Contemporary History - Don Oberdorfer [255]
The following abbreviations are used in the notes:
Emb. cable: Cable to the Department of State in Washington from the U.S. embassy in Seoul. Date and subject are given if available.
DOS cable: Cable from the Department of State in Washington to the U.S. embassy in Seoul. Date and subject are given if available.
FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, published by the US. government
KB? The Korea Herald, an English-language newspaper in Seoul
KIS Works: Kim Il Sung Works (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House), in English.
KT: The Korea Times, an English-language newspaper in Seoul
NYT: The New York Times
SED Archives: Archives of the Socialist (Communist) Unity Party of the former East Germany, obtained in Berlin (in German)
WP.• The Washington Post
USFK Hist: U S. Forces Korea /Eighth US. Army Annual Historical Reports, the intelligence sections of which were declassified for me under the Freedom of Information Act. The year of the report quoted is given.
US-PRC Chronology: Richard H. Solomon, US.-PRC Political Negotiations, 1967-1984: An Annotated Chronology (Rand, 1985), secret (declassified 1994).
CHAPTER 1: WHERE THE WILD BIRDS SING
DMZ setting, see Fran Kaliher of Two Harbors, Minn., research associate of International Crane Foundation; Yoon Moo Boo, "DMZ: Paradise for Migratory Birds," Koreana (Winter 1995); Jimmy Lee, interview, July 8, 1995.
The Emergence of Two Koreas: Historical details from Carter J. Eckert et al., Korea Old and New: A History (Ilchokak Publishers, Seoul, for the Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990). Also, interviews with Eckert. For invasions and occupations, Donald S. Macdonald, The Koreans (Westview, 1988), pp. 1-2. Stettinius's ignorance from Louis J. Halle, The Cold War as History (London: Chatto & Windus, 1967), p. 202n. The Whelan quote is from Richard Whelan, Drawing the Line (Little, Brown, 1990), p. 27. The Rusk quote is from Dean Rusk, As I Saw It (Penguin Books, 1990), p. 124. The Summers quote is from Summers telephone interview, Feb. 11, 1997. The Henderson quote is from Gregory Henderson's chapter in Divided Nations in a Divided World (David McKay, 1974), p. 43.
War and Its Aftermath: Kim 11 Sung on not sleeping, Ciphered telegram from Shtykov to Vyshinsky, Jan. 19, 1950 in "Korea, 1949-50," Cold War International History Project Bulletin (Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Spring 1995), p. 8. For origins of Korean War, see especially Kathryn Weathersby's work for the Cold War International History Project. The casualty figures are from Whelan, Drawing the Line, p. 373. Kim Il Sung's secret emissary was Hwang Tae Sung; his mission was described by Chinese and Russian sources as well as by Lee Dong Bok, interview, July 15, 1993.
The Origins of Negotiation: For Kim Il Sung's presence in Beijing, see Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Little, Brown, 1979), p. 751. For Chinese military supply, see USFK Hist. 1974, secret (declassified 1994). Kim Seong Jin quote, Kim interview, Oct. 15, 1993. For Park remarks to correspondents, Son U Ryun, "Voice Testimony of Park Chung Hee," Monthly Chosun (Mar. 1993), in Korean.
For Park letter to Nixon, Theodore Eliot, "Reply to President Park Chung Hee's Letter on East Asian Problems," Department of State Memorandum, Nov. 4, 1971, secret (declassified 1978); "For Ambassador," Department of State Telegram (Dec. 13, 1971), secret (declassified, 1996); and "Seoul Receives Assurances from Nixon on China Talks," NYT Dec. 26, 1971. The Park quote on unprecedented peril is from Park Chung Hee, Korea Reborn (Prentice-Hall, 1979),