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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Germany and Korea share the experience of being a divided country. However, the German experience is history but the Korean experience is still reality. This paper analyzes similarities and differences of the development of the relationship between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) since the postwar period. The relational development of both states was determined by the ideological conflict between the superpower China and the USSR, therefore the relationship to one another changed over the years. In addition, this paper reports on massive, mostly unilateral East German donations to the DPRK, monetary and non-monetary, since the 1950s, making East Germany a major financier of reconstruction of North Korea after the Korean War.
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