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South Asia
March 25, 1989
In this letter, Shevardnadze, Yazov, and Kamentsev discuss the Soviet Union's obligations to provide military assistance to their treaty partners, and the differences between treaties.
December 23, 1988
Kim reacts to news that the socialist countries will establish diplomatic relations with South Korea.
January 20, 1986
Kim talks about the importance of North and South Korea, referring to the peninsula as "the most explosive place on the planet."
1996
Aleksandr Kapto reflects on the Soviet Union's normalization of relations with South Korea, and the consequential fallout in relations between North Korea and the USSR. According to Kapto, North Korea threatened to develop nuclear weapons and withdraw from the NPT as a result of Soviet-South Korean rapprochement.