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November 26, 1973	Telegram from New York to Bucharest, SECRET, No. 052312 The document describes a consensus at the UN regarding the Korean issue after an understanding was reached between Kissinger and Zhou Enlai. Thea author observes that some of the US media believes that the US came to a compromise solution with China because Nixon wanted to avoid having more political issues.
October 30, 1973	Telegram from Pyongyang, SECRET, No.061487, Urgent Soviet officials note their dissatisfaction towards the state of relations between the USSR and the DPRK. According to the Soviets, the exchange of delegations between the two countries is at an all time low, but they expect their relationship to improve in the next year. A similar "tenuous" relationship is observed between the PRC and the DPRK.
July 31, 1973	Telegram from New York to Bucharest, SECRET, No. 091.722, Normal Romanians note that the Chinese are worried about the possible vacuum left behind on the Korean Peninsula if the US withdraws from South Korea. The telegram notes that the Chinese will not oppose continued US presence in South Korea even after the dissolution of the UN Commission for Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea.
June 25, 1973	Telegram from Beijing, No.059.658, Urgent, SECRET Romanian official comments on statements made by Premier Zhou Enlai that appeared on China's Renmin Ribao. The official notes that Zhou does not condition Sino-American relations on US withdrawal from South Korea, Taiwan and South Vietnam. In fact, the official comments how Taiwan is overlooked and withdrawal of US troops from Korea is characterized as a request from Kim Il Sung.
May 14, 1973	Telegram from Beijing, No.059.484, Urgent, SECRET Pyongyang forwards ideas for exchange of commerce, people and goods between North and South Korea. These include bringing surplus labor in the South to work in North Korea, jointly creating irrigation system using North Korean expertise, etc. However, South Korea remains distrustful of the motives of North 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.
December 4, 1973	Joint State/Defense Message, “Korean Northwest Coastal Situation" The U.S. Departments of Defense and State offer instructions about how to respond to the Northern Limit Line Dispute, including measures to restrain South Korea.
December 3, 1973	Memorandum for Secretary Kissinger from Richard H. Solomon, “The Korean Situation and the China Element" National Security Council staff member Richard H. Solomon advises Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to work with the Chinese in order to respond to North Korea's provocations along the Northern Limit Line
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.