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Japan’s Relations with the Korean Peninsula, 1975

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NKIDP e-Dossier no. 17

Japan’s Relations with the Korean Peninsula, 1975

Introduced by Kyungwon Choi

This e-Dossier introduces four documents which were recently obtained from the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on Japan’s relations with, and the regional dynamics surrounding, the Korean Peninsula in 1975.

With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, Kim Il Sung took a renewed interest in launching a military campaign to re-unify the Korean Peninsula. Kim Il Sung looked to China to support his plans to liberate South Korea, and during an April 1975 visit to Beijing, he allegedly