Alliance of “Tooth and Lips” or Marriage of Convenience?

WPS 08-9: Alliance of “Tooth and Lips” or Marriage of Convenience? The Origins and Development of the Sino-North Korean Alliance, 1946-1958 ^[1], by Shen Zhi-Hua ^[2] (December 2008). In this paper, Prof. Shen traces the development of Sino-North Korean relations and challenges the “tooth and lips” myth often purported as the basis of their alliance, offering instead, more pragmatic roots for their close relations.

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[1] WPS 08-9: Alliance of “Tooth and Lips” or Marriage of Convenience? The Origins and Development of the Sino-North Korean Alliance, 1946-1958: https://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/USKI-WPS08-09.pdf

[2] Shen Zhi-Hua: https://uskoreainstitute.org/publications/working-paper-series/researcher-biographies/shen-zhihua/

[3] Find others in this series.: https://uskoreainstitute.org/publications/working-paper-series/north-korea/foreign-relations/

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