Following a brief diplomatic pall during the Khruschev period, Soviet military-technological transfers to North Korea resumed in full force over the mid-1960s and continued into the mid-1980’s ...

The very messiness of definition and outcome in Korea has contemporary resonance, given the difficulty of imagining what a ...

The division of Korea into North and South is the result of deep historical, political, and ideological conflicts that ...

Mid-1950s though 1960s: The Soviet Union continues to provide economic and military assistance to North Korea, but their relations decline as Kim Il Sung violently purges pro-Soviet and pro ...

The US Navy’s four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a ...

North Korea tries to hire Soviet nuclear physicists to boost its weapons program, but the Soviet Union gets wind of the plan and detains the scientists. April 10, 1992 A Tentative Agreement ...

In fact, by the early 1990s — after the collapse of the Soviet Union, America’s victory in the first Gulf War and the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994 — experts say North Korea believed nuclear ...

In 1950, Soviet leader Josef Stalin persuaded China’s Mao Zedong to provide troops to North Korea for its invasion of South Korea. On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed ...

Five nuclear tests is quite a lot, and the later countries like France and China were able to move quickly by following the path set forth by the United States and Soviet Union. North Korea is ...

North Korea would not be able to launch warheads without Russian or Ukrainian technology, which is what makes them truly a global threat. ... In April 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolving, ...