Troops entered Czechoslovakia without anti-tank missiles or gun training, later purging editors and hunting "terrorists" after NSO Nikolov was kidnapped and murdered.
By Roy Castellano ·
North Korea secretly targeted Prague for uranium-mining gear and a reactor while diplomats in Geneva fought to freeze the nuclear map during the mid-1960s.
By Roy Castellano ·
Prague feared North Korea was equipping itself with nuclear weapons and risking global war while Budapest dismissed the alarm as a tactic to sound out Jimmy Carter's plans.
By Roy Castellano ·
Czechoslovakia and East Germany blocked students from accessing state secrets in nuclear physics after Pyongyang urgently offered to pay all costs for 95 trainees.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Historians spent a decade sorting through wreckage from a state security apparatus to determine how the transition from 41 years of one-party rule actually functioned on paper.
By Roy Castellano ·