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July 28, 1967	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.247, July 28, 1967 Romanian and Vietnamese diplomats discuss the purges in the Korean Workers' Party and North Korea's reunification policy.
June 15, 1967	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, No. 76.208, TOP SECRET, June 15, 1967 Chinese and Romanian diplomats review Sino-North Korean relations and the recent purges of Pak Geum-cheol and other leading officials from the Korean Workers' Party.
June 13, 1967	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, No. 76.203, TOP SECRET, June 13, 1967 Socialist diplomats in Pyongyang speculate about the disappearances of Pak Geum-cheol and other leading officials from the Korean Workers' Party.
April 13, 1955	Record of a Conversation with Editor of the Journal “Novaya Koreya” Song Jin-hwa Song Jin-hwa shares his impressions of the results of the 10th KWP CC Plenum, where the nature of the Korean revolution, the development of socialism in North Korea, and the situation in South Korea was discussed.
June 21, 1955	Record of Conversation with Chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak informs Petrov of the expanded KWP CC Presidium meeting, specifically dealing with steps to improve the management of agriculture and issues of Party and state leadership.
May 11, 1955	Report from B. Ponomarev to the CPSU Central Committee Ponomarev reports on the arrest of Pak Heon-yeong, a leading figure of the Party who has been accused of plotting against the Party and government.
April 5, 1955	Record of Conversation with Chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak discusses the conclusion of the 10th KWP CC Plenum, where organizational issues within the Party have been discussed.
June 11, 1958	Journal of Soviet Ambassador in the DPRK A. M. Puzanov for 11 June 1958 Puzanov reports on North Korea's Five-Year Plan, Nam Il's request for medicine to treat animals, the tenth anniversary of the DPRK's founding, and North Korea's participation in a congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
February 25, 1956	Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences,' Delivered at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In a secret speech before a closed plenum of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s cult of the personality. In addition, he revealed that Stalin had rounded up thousands of people and sent them into a huge system of political work camps (Gulags). This revelation was met with astonishment by many present for the speech, but helped to break the power that Stalin still held over the country.
March 17, 1958	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK A.M. Puzanov for 17 March 1958 Puzanov discusses first Party Conference in North Korea, in which Kim Il Sung addressed issues concerning the first five-year plan and strengthening the unity and solidarity of the Party.