From 1966 through 1969, a series of military clashes taking place along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Korean forces and South Korean and US troops threatened the drag the Korean Peninsula into another period of open hostility. See also, the Korean War. (Image, North Korean commando captured during the Blue House Raid, 1968)
Crisis and Confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, 1968-1969 features the transcript of the first in a series of critical oral history conferences jointly convened by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ North Korea International Documentation Project and the University of North Korean Studies and a selection of primary source documents.
Mitchell Lerner chronicles the events of the “Second Korean War” from 1966 through 1969 and explores the internal circumstances and foreign policy of North Korea during this critical period.
Mitchell Lerner and Jong-Dae Shin assess Romanian evidence on North Korea's seizure of the USS Pueblo ship.
Questions linger as to why the North Koreans attempted something as provocative as attacking an American ship on the high seas. Sergey Radchenko assesses the latest evidence on the USS Pueblo incident.
The 1968 crisis over the USS Pueblo harmed Pyongyang’s reputation in the Third World by demonstrating that Kim Il Sung’s underhanded guerilla-style tactics risked plunging the Korean peninsula into another war.
A newly released Soviet record suggests the real tragedy of the Pueblo crisis was that the Americans did not act sooner.
Russian archival documents reveal that the capture of the Pueblo left Moscow struggling to understand Kim’s thinking and alarmed that he might attempt to drag the Soviet Union into a war with the United States.
