North Korea Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

:The North Korea International Documentation Project serves as an informational clearinghouse on North Korea for the scholarly and policymaking communities, disseminating documents on the DPRK from its former communist allies that provide valuable insight into the actions and nature of the North Korean state. It is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program.

:This website and a related publication is a result of collaboration between the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) with the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission of the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN). We aim bring light to archived documentation on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) collected by the communist secret services in formerly communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe.<ref>"What is the North Korean Archives Project?", North Korean Archives Project, https://northkoreanarchives.org, accessed 17 January 2023.</ref>

:This category mainly consists of '''digitized materials of North Korean documents seized between 1945 and 1950''' and housed by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The North Korean documents providing a glimpse into a part of the modern and contemporary history of Korea hold high value and significance as primary historical records. In addition, there are plans to present various other documents that shed light on the diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan in the modern times, the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, and the independence movement that was spurred in Korea.