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Eungseo Kim, The Sino-DPRK Split and Origins of US-DPRK Bilateralism

Eungseo Kim, ‘The Sino-DPRK Split and Origins of US-DPRK Bilateralism,’ European Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 2018), 72-80. Abstract: North Korea has identified its official foreign policy as being focused on ‘self-reliance’ since the mid-1906s. Kim Il Sung (Kim Il-sŏng) had been long preoccupied with external interference in internal affairs, so the escalation of the Sino-Soviet schism created… Read more →