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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “North Koreans in Russia”
During the post-Korean War reconstruction period of North Korea from 1953 to 1962, many North Korean students enrolled in universities and colleges in countries of the Soviet bloc, including Russia, and others came as industrial trainees.[source retracted]
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The source
'Fraternal Socialism': The International Reconstruction of North Korea, 1953-62
Charles K Armstrong
Cold War History · published May 2005 · cited 27 times by other papers
Retracted Feb 10, 2020
Plagiarism of/in Article
Where Wikipedia cites it
- North Koreans in Russia647 views a month · open since Nov 5 · editors toldZombie
Case log
- FoundFound on North Koreans in Russia: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
- ReviewedRead by hand (North Koreans in Russia). Cold War History retracted this article in 2020 for plagiarism.
- Note postedNote posted on the talk page of North Koreans in Russia. See the note.
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