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June 26, 1973	Telegram from Washington, DC, No.084.605, Urgent, SECRET Romanian officials in Washington report that they submitted the letter from the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, intended for the US congress, to the US State Department. The US official in contact with the Romanians described North Korea's attitudes towards the joint accession of the two Koreas to the UN as unrealistic.
June 19, 1973	Telegram from Pyongyang , No.061.240, Urgent, SECRET The North Koreans follow Romanian advice and allow the submission of their letter to Congress through the US State Department.
June 16, 1973	Telegram to Pyongyang from First Directorate, SECRET, No. 01/08463, Flash Romanian officials relay the message from UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim regarding permanent observers from the DPRK to the UN. The telegram notes that Waldheim will offer his support to the North Korean observers and that obtaining visas to the US will not be difficult.
June 7, 1973	Telegram from Washington, DC, No.084.504, Urgent, SECRET Romanian official in the US warns Bucharest that relaying the letter from the DPRK to US public officials in the manner requested by Pyongyang may damage Romanian relations with the US. The official recommends a more normal procedure recommended to him by US officials and suggests convincing the North Koreans to follow a different method of sending its message to US congress.
May 5, 1973	Telegram from the First Directorate to Washington, DC, No.01/04493 North Korea asks Romania to forward a letter to the president of the US Senate, Spiro T. Agnew, and separately, the Speaker of the House, Carl Albert. The letter, adopted by the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, will request the US to withdraw its forces from the Korean Peninsula, terminate military aid to South Korea, and dismantle the UN Commission for the Unification and Reconstruction of Korea.
March 21, 1973	Telegram from Bucharest to Pyongyang, SECRET, No. 02/01810 Romanian officials describe disagreements between the South and North Korean delegations during the second session of the South-North Coordination Committee (SNCC).
February 13, 1973	Telegram from Beijing to Bucharest, SECRET, Urgent, No. 059.139 Gavrilescu speculates the possibilities that DPRK Foreign Minister Heo Dam meets Kissinger as well as that the inter-Korean conflict is raised as a major issue in Sino-American negotiations.
March 1, 1973	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, SECRET, No. 061072 The document discusses the political strategies of the two Koreas' and their respective visions of unification. The author notes that North Korea is reaching out to the world to shore up support for Pyongyang's vision.
February 19, 1973	Telegram from Istanbul to Bucharest, No. 037032 The document comments on South Korea's unwillingness to cooperate with North Korea in any of the framework established under the 1972 joint declaration. While South Korea refuses closer economic and political ties with North Korea, Pyongyang has made the removal of the US troops a major prerequisite, further stalling cooperation.
February 23, 1968	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, TOP SECRET, No. 76.049, Flash The Embassy of Romania in the DPRK reports on General Pak Jeong-guk and his negotiations with the United States over the release of the USS Pueblo crew.