Book projects in progress

• A North Korea-Soviet trade history, 1945-1970

Papers  under review
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• A decolonial history of North Korea

• An agricultural history of North Korea during the Korean War

• An oil history of modern Korea before 1973

Papers in progress

• A digital history of North Korea

• "Faustian Trash: South Korea’s Radioactive Waste Disposal before Chernobyl"

• "Food Gathering Technologies at the Cold War Margins: Hunting Practices and Knowledge in Socialist North Korea"

• "Squid Game Socialism: The Use of Decapodiformes in Developmentalist North Korea, 1945-1965"

• "Proliferation for Peace: Moscow’s Third World Atomic Technology Transfer and North Korea’s Place"

Papers in planning

• "Agricultural De-globalisation of North Korea before 1956"

• "“Attics Do Not Save Us from Atomic Bombs”: Dissenting Voices in North Korea in the Early 1960s"

• "Rooms for Social Hatred in Post-War North Korean Society, 1953-1963"

• "Soviet Exploration of Secret North Korea: How the Soviets Gathered Information in North Korea, 1945-1960"

• "Daring Big Science, Mortgaging Certain Futures: North Korea’s Global Pursuit of Industrial Technology in the 1960s"

• "Enduring under Imperialist Bombs: North Korea’s Military Perception and Civil Defense Practice under Atomic Conditions in the 1950s"

• A medical history of North Korea

• A transnational history of Soviet Koreans

Donghyun Woo, "The Peaceful Origins of North Korea's Nuclear Programme in the Cold War Period, 1945–1965," The Historical Journal 66, no. 2 (2023): 459–79. doi:10.1017/S0018246X22000140

Donghyun Woo, ""Constructing “People’s Science-Technology”: The Culture of Science and Technology in Early North Korea, 1945-1950," 한국과학사학회지 44, no. 2 (2022): 297-319. doi: 10.36092/KJHS.2022.44.2.297