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For Kim's quotes on Carter, KIS Works, "Talk to the Delegation of the International Liaison Committee" (June 15, 1978), vol. 33, p. 257; and "Talk with the Chief Editor of the Japanese Political Magazine Sekai," (Oct. 21, 1978), vol. 33, p. 493.
For Kim's discussion with Honecker, "Transcript of official talks between the party and state delegation of the GDR and North Korea in Pyongyang, 12/9-10/77," SED Archive. For CIA economic analysis, Korea: The Economic Race Between the North and the South (CIA: National Foreign Assessment Center, Jan. 1978), p. i. On South Korean military spending, The Military Balance (London: International Institute of Strategic Studies, 1976 and 1977). Chinese troops near DPRK border, "Conversation between Honecker and Kim, 5/31/84," SED Archives. U.S. Command on North Korean infiltration, USFK Hist. 1977, pp. 5455, secret/noforn (declassified 1995).
End of the Carter Withdrawal: The section on Armstrong's work is based on interviews with Armstrong July 7 and 20, 1974, Evelyn Colbert, Feb. 14, 1994, and Nathanial Thayer, Aug. 1, 1995, former CIA National Intelligence officers for East Asia; Alan MacDougall, former DIA senior analyst for Korea, Aug. 2, 1995; and an excellent case study, "President Carter's Troop Withdrawal from Korea," written for Harvard University in 1990 by Major Joseph Wood. For Vessey's intelligence request, USFKHist. 1978, p. 57, secret (declassified 1995). New North Korean estimate, USFK Hist. 1980, p. 17, secret (declassified 1995). The Thayer quote is from Thayer interview, Aug. 1, 1995.
On Carter's suspicion of intelligence, letter to me, Mar. 12, 1994. Quote from new review, Presidential Review Memorandum/NSC-45, Nov 22, 1979, secret (declassified 1991).
Carter's plan for meeting of Park and Kim, Nicholas Platt interview, Feb. 10, 1994; William Gleysteen interview, Sept. 29, 1993. Carter-Deng talks, Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith (Bantam Books, 1982), pp. 205-206. See also US.-PRC Chronology, p. 75. Carter on three-way talks, Gleysteen interview.
For Carter-Park bilateral talks, interviews with Platt, Feb. 10, 1994, and Holbrooke, Aug. 10, 1993. Also White House Memorandum of Conversation, secret (declassified 1997). For argument in car, interviews with Gleysteen, Vance, Brown, Brzezinski, Holbrooke, Platt and Rich, and Vance, Hard Choices (Simon and Schuster 1993). For Carter proselytizing Park, "Private Meeting with President Park, Seoul, Korea," 7/l/79, notes by Carter, from Carter Library. Final strength figures from USFK, Nov 25, 1996. On nuclear weapons, Arkin telephone interview, Mar. 24, 1995.
CHAPTER 5: ASSASSINATION AND AFTERMATH
On the postassassination situation see Gleysteen's first dispatch, Emb. cable, "Initial Reflections on Post-Park Chung Hee Situation in Korea," Oct. 28, 1979, secret (declassified 1993). Gleysteen's postmidnight actions, interview, Oct. 12, 1993. On details of the White House meeting, see Chung Chin Suk, "Power Vacuum in Korea," Hankook Ilbo Dec. 13, 1996, in Korean. On the last days of Park and other late 1970s developments in Korea, I have relied on Koon Woo Nam's useful book, South Korean Politics: The Search for Political Consensus and Stability (University Press of America, 1989).
Embassy on Pusan protests, Emb. cable, "Embassy Thoughts on Current Mood Following Declaration of Martial Law in Pusan," Oct. 20, 1979, confidential (declassified 1993). U.S. warnings about Kim Young Sam's expulsion, NCS Memorandum from Platt to Brzezinski, "Opposition Leader Ousted," October 4, 1979, confidential (declassified 1997). Brown-Gleysteen meeting with Park, Emb. cable, "Meeting with President Park Regarding Domestic Political