Comments on: National Archives: Captured North Korean Documents

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:01:49 +0000

Note that a large selection of these documents can now be found in the conveniently reprinted 國史編纂委員會 multi-volume series: 北韓關係史料集 – unfortunately, they do not include the original RG242 SR numbers, and I’m not sure what percentage of the collection has been included in the series. I’m currently going through the volumes and cross checking them with my own archival photos.

By: The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea – Frog in a Well Korea

The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea – Frog in a Well Korea — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:04:03 +0000

[...] Suzy Kim, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, and a member of the steering committee of the ASCK (the organization mentioned in the earlier postings in the series), is certainly someone who is qualified to comment on publications which deal with daily life in North Korea. Her 2005 dissertation from the University of Chicago, where she studied with Bruce Cumings, is on the “Politics of Empowerment: Everyday Life Within the North Korean Revolution (1945-1950).” The dissertation is one of a small but growing number of works that make use of the RG242 captured North Korean documents in the US National Archives that I have written about in an earlier Frog in a Well posting.3 [...]

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:39:04 +0000

Thanks for that comment James. I just saw around half a dozen volumes of copies of varying quality containing some of these documents in the Yonsei library last week. I don’t know if that is all they have, but it would take several hundred volumes of that size to get close to covering the interesting stuff. Do you remember how many volumes there were?

By: James Person

James Person — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:26 +0000

I believe the National Institute of Korean History (국사편찬위원회에) has already published the captured North Korean documents in several thick volumes. They should be readily available in most libraries in Korea (if that is where you are based). I have looked through them in the library of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul (formerly part of Kyungnam Univ.).

By: Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:30:26 +0000

[...] Archives collection of Captured North Korean Documents in record group 242 that I introduced in an earlier posting. While I’m looking through files most likely to be of use in my own dissertation research, I [...]