This collection of documents probes the relationship between China and North Korea from the 1940s through the 1980s. While often described as being "as close as lips to teeth," this collection highlights instances of both cooperation and mistrust between China and North Korea. See also the Digital Archive collection on Repatriation to North Korea.
According to historian Chen Jian, the Sino-DPRK treaty does not obligate China to support North Korea if Pyongyang were to attack the US.
A look at the history of the Chinese-Korean coal trade shows how the considerable leverage that Chin holds over the DPRK economy,
Shen Zhihua and and Yafeng Xia review the extent and significance of Chinese assistance to North Korea after the Korean War.
Drawing on a new tranche of Soviet documents, Sergey Radchenko offers a riveting narrative of the attempted overthrow of Kim Il Sung in 1956, an event that redefined North Korea's relations with Beijing and Moscow.
History demonstrates the difficult but ultimately resilient relationship between China and North Korea.
Gregg Brazinsky examines North Korea’s wartime propaganda that shaped popular attitudes toward China and the hundreds of thousands of Chinese Peoples’ Volunteers it dispatched to fight in the Korean War.
How China did -- and did not -- push Kim Il Sung towards war in the lead up to June 25, 1950.
Shen Zhihua on the significant conflict that existed between the PRC and the DPRK at the highest levels during the Korean War.
