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The Two Koreas_ A Contemporary History - Don Oberdorfer [265]

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For the Deng-Weinberger talks, US-PRC Chronology, p. 110. For Deng's reaction to the Rangoon bombing, Ralph Clough, Embattled Korea (Westview, 1987), p. 269.

For the early history of the three-way talks proposal, see Kim Hak Joon, Unification Policies of North and South Korea 1945-1991 (Seoul National University Press, 1992), especially pp. 380-385. On the continued promotion of three-way plan, William Gleysteen interview, Sept. 13, 1995. On U.S. backing for three-way talks, Don Oberdorfer, "North Korea Says U.S. Proposals Merit Discussion," WP, Oct. 8, 1984. Wolfowitz on "boilerplate," Wolfowitz interview, July 19, 1994. Ho Dam's comments were in his report to the opening session of the SPA on Jan. 25, 1985. Kim Il Sung on "exposing" the United States, transcript of conversation between Kim Il Sung and Eric Honecker, May 30, 1984, SED Archives.

Floods and Face-to-Face Talks: Haberman dispatch, "North Korea Delivers Flood Aid Supplies to South," NYT, Sept. 30, 1984. On Liem's trip, Yang Chin Young, "Kim Il Sung Whom I Met," Joong-ang Monthly (Apr. 1989), in Korean; also Sohn Jang Nae interview, Apr. 29, 1994. On contention in Pyongyang, see "Kim Endorses Dialogue Amid Signs of Contention on Issue," FBIS Trends (CIA: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Jan. 3, 1985), confidential (declassified 1995). For details of the Ho Dam-Chang Se Dong trips, see Park Bo Kyon, "Chang Se Dong-Ho Dam, Each Visited Pyongyang-Seoul," Joong-ang Ilbo, Jan. 7, 1994, and following days, in Korean. A transcript of the talks in the South was published as "Secret Talks Between Chun Doo Hwan and Ho Dam," Monthly Chosun (Nov 1996), in Korean.

On Chun shutting down the nuclear weapons program, Kim Jin Hyun (former ROK minister of science and technology), interview, July 23, 1993. Sohn quote on talks, Sohn interview, Apr. 29, 1994. U.S. intelligence official on talks, interview, May 14, 1994. Kim Il Sung on "great losses" from Team Spirit, stenographic transcript of "Official Friendship Visit of North Korean Party and State Delegation to the GDR," May 30, 1984, SED Archives.

Kim Il Sung and the Soviet Connection: For Stalin's role in the armistice, Kathryn Weathersby, "Stalin and a Negotiated Settlement in Korea, 1950-53," paper prepared for conference on "New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia," Hong Kong, Jan. 1996. For Kim's situation in the Sino-Soviet split, see Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il Sung (Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 176-210. Tkachenko quote, Tkachenko interviews, Oct. 24, 1993, and Apr. 12, 1994.

For Central Committee quote on DPRK, Eugene Bazhanov, "Soviet Policy Toward North Korea," Russia and Korea Toward the 21st Century (Seoul: Sejong Institute, 1992), p. 65. Hu Yaobang to Reagan, US-PRC Chronology, p. 111. Rakhmanin on Kim in Moscow, Rakhmanin inter view, Apr. 8, 1994. Gorbachev on Kim's "socialist monarchy," Erinnerungen (Memories) (Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1995), the Germanlanguage version of his memoirs.

Kim's comments in Moscow 1984, "On the Visit of North Korea's Party and State Delegation led by Kim Il Sung to the USSR," May 29, 1984, SED Archives, in German and Russian. Kim's worry about China, from transcript of "Official Friendship Visit of North Korean Party and State Delegation to the GDR," Mar. 31, 1984, in German. Soviet official's quote, from "On the Visit of North Korea's Party and State Delegation."

The USSR-DPRK economic data are from an excellent analysis by Nicholas Eberstadt, Marc Rubin, and Albina Tretyakova, "The Collapse of Soviet and Russian Trade with the DPRK, 1989-1993," Korean Journal of National Unification, vol. 4 (1995). Details of Soviet military aid agreements in 1984 and 1986 from Joseph M. Ha, Ha interview, Feb. 21, 1995. Record of overflights, USFKHist. 1985, p. 25, secret (declassified 1995). Satellite avoidance, USFKHist., with chapter headings on SATRAN, especially 1979 report, p. 51.

For the protests by North Korea in Moscow, see the outstanding scholarship of Eugene Bazhanov and his wife, Natalia Bazhanova (a Russian expert on Korean affairs who had

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