[1] Kim Jong Il, On some Questions in Understanding the Juche Philosophy (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1984); Kim Jong Il, On the Juche Idea (1989).

[2] A E Murad, The Third Universal Theory: Echoes in the West (Ontario: Jerusalem International Publishing House, 1984).

[3] While such questions will be unpalatable conservative types; those who lean towards the Left will not like it suggested that other peoples considered anachronistic in this era of globalization include the Afrikaners who had spent most of their existence fighting some type of plutocracy, while the post-apartheid regime delivered South Africa to privatisation, including the selling off of the “parastatals,” which the ANC assured its supporters is “correct Marxist-Leninist policy.”

[4] K R Bolton, “Russia and China: an Approaching Conflict?,” The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Washington, Summer 2009, Vol. 34, No. 2, 164-165.

[5] Ibid., 162.

[6] Ibid.

[7] K R Bolton, “Sino-Soviet-US Relations and the 1969 Nuclear Threat,” Foreign Policy Journal, May 17, 2010. K R Bolton, op.cit., 2009, 156-158.

[8] Robert A Scalapino., “The Political Influence of the USSR in Asia,” in Donald S. Zagoria, ed., Soviet Policy in East Asia (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982), 71.

[9] Bruce Elleman, “Sino-Soviet Relations and the February 1979 Sino-Vietnamese Conflict,” 20 April 1996

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Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/

[10] Elleman, ibid.

[11] Elleman, ibid.

[12] Peter Grosse, “The First Transformation,” Continuing The Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996, (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2006). The entire book can be read online at: Council on Foreign Relations: http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/index.html

[13] “The Inquiry” was the predecessor of the Council on Foreign Relations, which Grosse refers to as the USA’s “foreign policy establishment.” (sic).

[14] Peter Grosse, op.cit.

[15] Ibid.

[16] K R Bolton, “Socialism, Revolution, and Capitalist Dialectics,” Foreign Policy Journal, May 4, 2010.

[17] For example: Maj. Arch E Roberts, Victory Denied: Why Your Son Faces Death in ‘No-Win Wars’” (Colorado: Committee to Restore the Constitution, 1972).

[18] Geoffrey Murray,  (1997) Vietnam: Dawn of a New Market (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979), 24-25.

[19] The World Bank: “Vietnam: Country Brief”, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/VIETNAMEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20212080~menuPK:387573~pagePK:1497618~piPK:217854~theSitePK:387565,00.html (Accessed 28 February 2010).

[20] Ibid.