Press Briefing by Permanent Observer of Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the UN, 7 July 1976.

Photograph by Yutaka Nagata, July 7, 1976, United Nations Photo #191917, https://dam.media.un.org/asset-management/2AM9LOFPTS4B

Inter-Korean Relations

A comprehensive collection of documents about the relationship between North Korea and South Korea from 1953 to the present. The collection highlights periods of conflict between the two Koreas as well as periods where one or both countries promoted cooperation and compromise in order to achieve the reunification of Korea. For more focused collections that deal with specific periods in inter-Korean relations, see (1) Inter-Korean Relations after the War, 1954-1961; (2) Inter-Korean Competition, 1961-1970; (3) Inter-Korean Dialogue, 1971-1972; (4) Demise of Detente in Korea, 1973-1975; and (5) Inter-Korean Dialogue, 1977-1980. Other related collections include: Korea at the United Nations, 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and the Two Koreas and the Third World.

Press Briefing by Permanent Observer of Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the UN, 7 July 1976.

Photograph by Yutaka Nagata, July 7, 1976, United Nations Photo #191917, https://dam.media.un.org/asset-management/2AM9LOFPTS4B

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August 1973	Letter from Enver Hoxha to Kim Il Sung In this letter to Kim Il Sung, Enver Hoxha addresses issues surrounding the division and reunification of Korea, and offers his support to North Korea's reunification proposals.
June 20, 1966	Report on a Meeting between Enver Hoxha and DPRK Ambassador An Yong Enver Hoxha meets with the North Korean Ambassador to Albania, An Yong, to discuss North Korea's foreign relations, Titoist and Khrushchevian revisionism, the communist movement, and bilateral relations.
September 9, 1978	Cvijetin Mijatović’s Conversation with Kim Il Sung on September 9, 1978 Kim Il Sung discusses new developments in inter-Korean relations and his views on the Non-Aligned Movement.
October 30, 1973	Memorandum on the Conversation between Kim Il Sung and Todor Zhivkov Todor Zhivkov, First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, reports on his meeting with Kim Il Sung. Zhivkov and Kim discussed global detente and the Cold War, Chinese-North Korean relations, collective security in Asia, North Korea's views of COMECON, Korean unification, and factionalism in the Korean Workers' Party.
May 4, 1972	Conversation between Kim Il Sung and Lee Hu-rak Kim Il Sung presents his "Three Principles of National Reunification" as he and Lee Hu-rak debate whetherPak Seong-cheol's visit to Seoul should be preceded by a visit from Kim Yeong-ju.