Enver Hoxha pivots Albania toward North Korea to bypass the Kremlin
Two isolated regimes forged a kinship in 1961 to defy the Soviet Union, sending high-level envoys to Pyongyang to coordinate total state indoctrination.
By Vera Kessler ·
Workers' Party of Korea
Ri Jong-ok Faces 4 Percent Interest on 700 Million Rubles
North Korean officials lied about publishing an abusive book on the Soviet Union while seeking a 4.1 million metric ton steel expansion.
By Roy Castellano ·
Kim Il Sung Rejects Moscow Treaty as Soviet Surrender to West
Nikita Khrushchev was accused of surrendering to the West in a hidden 1963 rift where Kim Il Sung rejected the Moscow Treaty and urged other socialist states to seek nuclear weapons.
By Vera Kessler ·