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November 1957	Friendship and Solidarity Among Socialist Countries Kim Il Sung's article, originally published in Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn, thanks the Soviet Union and China for assisting North Korea while deriding American foreign policy.
October 19, 1957	On the Implementation of the Party's Policy in the Field of Construction Kim Il Sung's concluding speech at a Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
May 10, 1967	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, No. 76.161, TOP SECRET, May 10, 1967 Kim Gwang-hyeop explains that North Korea's standard of living is relatively low because of the need to invest heavily in defense industries, a policy dated back to the October 1966 Party Conference.
March 28, 1967	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, No.76.108, TOP SECRET, March 28, 1967 Ionescu Teofil and the Soviet Minister-Counselor in Pyongyang discuss the reasoning behind the "forthcoming revolutionary event" in North Korea, commenting that the event is likely to be way of distracting the public from economic problems and failures.
July 5, 1947	What Every Political Party and Social Organization Must Demand on the Establishment of a Democratic Interim Government of Korea A reprinting of Kim Il Sung's June 14, 1947, speech to the Democratic National United Front on the establishment of a democratic interim government. An appendix to the publication contains Kim Il Sung's June 23, 1947, speech, "To the Korean Youth Before the Establishment of the Democratic Interim Government."
December 25, 1948	The Operation of the People’s Economy and the System of Planning Published by the State Planning Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948, this pamphlet describes the economy of Korea during the colonial period and lays out the policy changes made since liberation.
June 12, 1960	The Economic and Political Situation of the DPRK The memorandum elaborates on the rapid economic growth and development in domestic policies in the DPRK after the Korean War.
August 18, 1960	The 'Chollima' Movement of Accelerate the Development of Socialism in the DPRK Samsonov discusses the "Chollima" movement that is launched to accelerate the economic development in the DPRK.
July 5, 1960	Report from the Charge d’Affairs of the USSR in the DPRK V. Pelishenko to the Chief of the USSR MFA Far East Department Cde. I.I. Tugarinov Surkov discusses the development of the machine-building industry as one of the main elements for socialist industrialization in the DPRK.
June 12, 1960	Report from the USSR Ambassador in the DPRK A. Puzanov to the USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Cde. A.A. Gromyko Puzanov forwards a report concerning the specifics of the state and direction of economic development in the DPRK, from the point in which the first five-year plan is completed.