Navigating Czechoslovak Cold War Diplomacy: between the 1988 Seoul Olympics and 1989 Pyongyang World Festival of Youth and Students

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Navigating Czechoslovak Cold War Diplomacy: between the 1988 Seoul Olympics and 1989 Pyongyang World Festival of Youth and Students

Original language description

The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic participated in the 1988 24th Summer Olympics in Seoul and the 1989 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, despite maintaining diplomatic relations only with the Democratic People&apos;s Republic of Korea. This article aims to explain Czechoslovakia&apos;s diplomatic strategies in managing its relations with both Koreas during the Cold War. Following the 1988 Summer Olympics, Czechoslovakia gradually shifted its focus toward developing business relations with South Korea while continuing cautious and highly formal relations with the North, limited mainly to mutual declarations of support. The article also investigates the changing objectives of the Olympic movement and North Korea&apos;s diplomatic approach toward socialist states.The research draws on Czech archival materials from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the Central Committee of Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Union, and the former Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Orientalia Slovaca

ISSN

1336-3786

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

117-139

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105032540131