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November 15, 1973	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, SECRET, No. 061.465, Urgent The document describes several gatherings of Korean People's Army corps in Pyongyang where military leaders presented a report underlying the necessity of increasing the level of technical and combat preparedness of the army. The author observes how the rhetoric of driving out "American imperialists" and unifying the peninsula had reappeared in North Korea.
August 1973	Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Note, No. 01/010123/73, Secret Romanian official reports on the progress of the 6 year plan and the intensive industrial and agricultural projects taking place around North Korea. Alongside improvements in the living standards of the Korean people, the report also notes Pyongyang's efforts to strengthen the military capabilities of the state. The document also mentions rise in food price since 1971, North Korea's support for revolutionary movements in Asia and North Korea's plans for the ascension of a single Korean state to the UN.
April 12, 1973	Telegram from Pyongyang, SECRET, No.061.121, Urgent A Romanian diplomat reports on the second session of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly. The meeting focused on increasing the state budget to accomplish the 6-year plan with particular focus on heavy industry, machinery, raw material extraction, and energy production. The meeting also noted the need to increase the standard of living for the North Korean people. Nonetheless, no mention was made on collaborating with the outside world for economic and technological cooperation.
February 25, 1974	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, SECRET, Urgent, No. 060.079 The Embassy of Romania of Pyongyang assesses the February 15 naval clash between North and South Korea based on the comments of B.K. Pimenov, Minister-Counselor within the USSR Embassy in Pyongyang.
March 17, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.069, Urgent The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK reports on China's relations with North Korea following the Blue House Raid and the seizure of the USS Pueblo.
March 17, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.068, Urgent The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK reports on discussions held between DPRK Minister of National Defense, Kim Changbong, and Leonid Brezhnev on Soviet intervention in the event that an armed conflict were to break out in Korea.
March 1, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.054, Urgent The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK conveys the results of meeting between the Hungarian Ambassador and Kim Changbong, the Minister of Defense of the DPRK, and discusses relations between China and North Korea.
February 28, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.053, Regular The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK summarizes war preparations undertaken by both North and South Korea in the aftermath of the Blue House Raid and the seizure of the USS Pueblo.
February 27, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.051, Urgent The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK summarizes a briefing at the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which foreign diplomats were encouraged to build bunkers in anticipation of an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
February 19, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.047, Regular The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK conveys the views of Le Thet Hung following the seizure of the USS Pueblo.