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May 19, 1975	Telegram from Moscow to Bucharest, SECRET, No. 050.572 The document summarizes North Korea's prospective approach towards unification. Pyongyang envisages three different paths: peaceful, military and revolutionary. In order to support these three routes to unification, the DPRK forwards three policies: the rapid development of socialism, promotion of democracy in South Korea and reinforcement of military solidarity with the revolutionary forces of the world.
March 11, 1975	Telegram from Pyongyang to Bucharest, No. 059.076 Popa observes an increase of US military presence in South Korea, including the transfer of nuclear weapons and notes that many see this move as Washington's way of coping with the Sino-Soviet split and increased division between Japan and the US.
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.
February 15, 1963	Report, Embassy of Hungary in North Korea to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Hungarian and Czech Ambassadors discuss the recent resolution by the Korean Workers Party to build up North Korea's defenses as well as the situation in South Korea.
March 3, 1977	Report, Embassy of Hungary in Belgium to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry The socialist countries at The World Conference for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea draft a resolution that demands withdrawal of American troops from South Korea, as well as cessation of other states providing South Korea with defense capabilities.
June 4, 1962	Information about a Conversation between the Ambassador of the DPRK Comrade Gwon Yeong-tae and Comrade Alfred Kurella The North Korean Amabassador in East Germany evaluates politics, the economy, schooling, and the military in South Korea
June 3, 1968	Report, Embassy of Hungary in North Korea to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Report from meeting of Hungarian and Romanian ambassadors with head of National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The NLF comments on the balance of power on the peninsula, and the modernization of the DPRK armed forces.
May 3, 1962	Information on the Reunification Policy of the Korean Workers' Party A memorandum prepared by the First Extra-European Department of the East German Foreign Ministry on revisions within North Korea's reunification policies.
August 3, 1973	Letter to Erich Honecker from Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung explains US actions in South Korea and North Korean ideas to achieve a peaceful reunification of Korea ("five-point-plan").