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Timeline of North Korea's relations with China and the Soviet Union: contemporaneous scholarly observations of events (19XX-19XX)
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- Note: data unavailable for high profile visits to/from the DPRK before 1960.
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During the Cold War, North Korea's closest allies were the Soviet Union and P.R. China. These communist allies and neighbors were key to the origins of the country, and the struggles and survival of its regime. How North Korea managed and navigated its relations with its two key allies which it needed for its survival is an important historical question. Further, understanding how outside contemporary experts observed and interpreted those relations as they unfolded, illuminates how countries around the world based their strategic analysis and policy making for that region.
This timeline principally includes events as chronicled in contemporaneous academic journals and other serial academic publications that sought to provide quarterly or annual expert digests of developments in North Korea and/or its key allies. When those publications provided citations to other sources (mostly of news outlets), these are also cited in this article to provide insight into how the academic authors conducted their research and from which sources they drew information.
The secrecy and opacity of both North Korea and its communist neighbors meant that outside observers had very few, if any, independent sources. Often researchers resorted to heavily relying on the tightly controlled official state media and other forms of official communications from those three countries. Then, they tried to discern greater meaning from analyzing what was said, how it was said, what was omitted, any discrepancies between the press publications among the three countries, and by analyzing those in the broader economical and geopolitical context of the time.
In such a timeline of relations dependent on state media, visits by delegations, signing of treaties, and press editorials expressing fraternal support, feature prominently.