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Eastern Europe
(372) documents
East Asia
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1875- 1965
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1917- 1979
1912- 1994
October 28, 1979
Ambassador Gleysteen says he does "not know whether the stunning events of October 26/27 were a well planned military coup" or something else.
May 21, 1980
Ambassador Gleysteen writes that the "massive insurrection in Kwangju is still out of control."
Donald Gregg proposes that the United States "work with the current Korean leadership" but "express a carefully calibrated degree of disapproval" of the Gwangju massacre.
May 23, 1980
Donald Gregg and Michel Oksenberg outline US policy toward Korea in light of the incident in Gwangju.
May 22, 1980
Officials from the US Department of State, the White House, the CIA, NSC, OSD, and JCS determine US policy toward South Korea in light of the events in Gwangju.
Richard Holbrooke and Anthony Lake brief the US Secretary of State on the upcoming policy review committee meeting on the ongoing unrest in South Korea.
July 27, 1953
Eisenhower informs Rhee that US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be visiting Korea shortly.
January 20, 1951
Yudin recounts his meetings with Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhou Enlai. In three meetings, Yudin learned more about China's relations with other communist parties in Asia, economic conditions in China, and developments in the Korean War.
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.
October 12, 1973
Zhou Enlai and Trudeau have a wideranging conversation on international politics, covering the Vietnam War, Sino-Japanese relations, Nixon's visit to China, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arctic circle, and nuclear energy safeguards, among other topics.