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Soviet Policy in North Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Joungwon Alexander Kim
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The seizure of the Pueblo, the downing of the American EC-121 reconnaissance plane, the attempted assassination of South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean commando unit, and the recent revelation of North Korea's plans for unification of the Korean peninsula in the 1970s, raise numerous questions about the nature of the political system that has emerged from the Soviet occupation of Northern Korea in 1945-1948, during Stalin's last decade of rule.

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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , January 1970 , pp. 237 - 254
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1970

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1 This satellite system in North Korea is described in detail in North Korea: A Case Study in the Techniques of Takeover, prepared by the Department of State in 1951 and released to the public in 1961. This interpretation is based on information gathered from defectors, refugees, prisoners of war, and documents captured in the American occupation of Pyongyang during the Korean War.

2 Korea Economic Mission, Department of State, June 1947; the Soviet census showed 180,412 Korean residents in 1939.

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32 ibid.

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35 ibid., 350.

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43 Chosôn chungang nyôn'gam, 1959, 322.

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47 Ibid., 376.

48 Nodong Shinmun, October 28, 1963. Italics added.

49 Ibid.

50 Pukhan ch'onggam, 376.

51 Nodong Shinmun, June 2, 1965.

52 Minju Chosôn, June 22, 1966.

53 North Korea concluded defense treaties with both the Soviet Union and Red China in July, 1961. See The New Yorit Times, July 13, 1961, and The Washington Post, July 12, 1961.