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Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
한반도 비무장 지대
韓半島非武裝地帶
Hanbando Bimujang jidae
Korean Peninsula
A South Korean checkpoint at the Civilian Control Line, located outside of the DMZ
The Korean DMZ denoted by the red highlighted area. The blue line indicates the international border.
Type
DMZ
Length
250 kilometres (160 mi)
Site information
Open to
the public
No; access only granted by the South Korean government.
Condition
Fully manned and operational
Site history
Built by
North Korea
South Korea
United States
United Nations
In use
since 27 July 1953 (1953-07-27)
Events
Division of Korea
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Division of Korea
Post-armistice conflicts
Border Incidents
DMZ conflicts
1966–1969 conflict
Blue House raid
Major Henderson incident
Axe murder incident
NLL conflicts
1st Yeonpyeong
2nd Yeonpyeong
Daecheong
Cheonan incident
3rd Yeonpyeong
Other maritime incidents
Pueblo incident
EC-121 shootdown
Gangneung
Yosu
Terror attacks
Rangoon bombing
KAL Flight 858
2013 Korean crisis
South Korea cyberattack
Panama ship seizure
Post-crisis threats
2017–18 North Korea crisis
Hwasong missile tests
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ; Hangul: 한반도 비무장 지대; Hanja: 韓半島非武裝地帶) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula. It is established by the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement to serve as a buffer zone between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half. It was created by agreement between North Korea, China and the United Nations in 1953. The DMZ is 250 kilometres (160 miles) long, and about 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) wide.
Within the DMZ is a meeting point between the two nations in the small Joint Security Area (JSA) near the western end of the zone, where negotiations take place. There have been various incidents in and around the DMZ, with military and civilian casualties on both sides.
Contents
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1 Location
2 History
3 Joint Security Area
4 Villages
4.1 Flagpoles
5 DMZ-related incidents and incursions
5.1 Incursion tunnels
5.1.1 First tunnel
5.1.2 Second tunnel
5.1.3 Third tunnel
5.1.4 Fourth tunnel
5.2 Korean Wall
6 North Korean side of the DMZ
7 Propaganda
7.1 Loudspeaker installations
7.2 Balloons
8 Civilian Control Line
9 Neutral Zone of the Han River Estuary
10 Castle of Gung Ye
11 Transportation
12 Nature reserve
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
16 External links
Location[edit]
The Korean Demilitarized Zone intersects but does not follow the 38th parallel north, which was the border before the Korean War. It crosses the parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it.
The DMZ is 250 kilometres (160 miles) long,[1] approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. Though the zone separating both sides is demilitarized, beyond that strip the border is one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world.[2] The Northern Limit Line, or NLL, is the disputed maritime demarcation line between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea, not agreed in the armistice. The coastline and islands on both sides of the NLL are also heavily militarized.[3]
History[edit]
Detail of the DMZ
A portion of the North Korean DMZ seen from the Joint Security Area in January 1976
Main article: Division of Korea
The 38th parallel north—which divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half—was the original boundary between the United States and Soviet Union's brief administration areas of Korea at the end of World War II. Upon the creation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, informally North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (ROK, informally South Korea) in 1948, it became a de facto international border and one of the most tense fronts in the Cold War.
Both the North and the South remained dependent on their sponsor states from 1948 to the outbreak of the Korean War. That conflict, which claimed over three million lives and divided the Korean Peninsula along ideological lines, commenced on 25 June 1950, with a full-front DPRK invasion across the 38th parallel, and ended in 1953 after international intervention pushed the front of the war back to near the 38th parallel.
In the Armistice Agreement of 27 July 1953, the DMZ was created as each side agreed to move their troops back 2,000 m (2,200 yards) from the front line, creating a buffer zone 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. The Military Demarcation Line (MDL) goes through the center of the DMZ and indicates where the front was when the agreement was signed.
Owing to this theoretical stalemate, and genuine hostility between the North and the South, large numbers of troops are still stationed along both sides of the line, each side guarding against potential aggression from the other side. The armistice agreement explains exactly how many military personnel and what kind of weapons are allowed in the DMZ. Soldiers from both sides may patrol inside the DMZ, but they may not cross the MDL; ROK soldiers, however heavily armed, patrol under the aegis of military police, and have memorized each line of the armistice.[4] Sporadic outbreaks of violence have killed over 500 South Korean soldiers, 50 US soldiers and 250 soldiers from DPRK along the DMZ between 1953 and 1999.[5]
Daeseong-dong (also written Tae Sung Dong) and Kijŏng-dong are the only settlements allowed by the armistice committee to remain within the boundaries of the DMZ.[6] Residents of Tae Sung Dong are governed and protected by the United Nations Command and are generally required to spend at least 240 nights per year in the village to maintain their residency.[6] In 2008, the village had a population of 218 people.[6] The villagers of Tae Sung Dong are direct descendants of people who owned the land before the 1950–53 Korean War.[7]
To continue to deter North Korean incursion, in 2014 the United States government exempted the Korean DMZ from its pledge to eliminate anti-personnel landmines.[8]
Joint Security Area[edit]
View of the North from the southern side of the JSA
Conference Row seen from the northern side of the JSA
Main article: Joint Security Area
Inside the DMZ, near the western coast of the peninsula, Panmunjom is the home of the Joint Security Area (JSA). Originally, it was the only connection between North and South Korea[9] but that changed on 17 May 2007, when a Korail train went through the DMZ to the North on the new Donghae Bukbu Line built on the east coast of Korea. However, the resurrection of this line was short-lived, as it closed again in July 2008 following an incident where a South Korean tourist was shot and killed.
There are several buildings on both the north and the south side of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), and there have been some built on top of it. The JSA is the location where all negotiations since 1953 have been held, including statements of Korean solidarity, which have generally amounted to little except a slight decline of tensions. The MDL goes through the conference rooms and down the middle of the conference tables where the North Koreans and the United Nations Command (primarily South Koreans and Americans) meet face to face.
Within the JSA are a number of buildings for joint meetings called Conference Row. These are used for direct talks between the Korean War participants and parties to the armistice. Facing the Conference Row buildings are the North Korean Panmungak (English: Panmun Hall) and the South Korean Freedom House. In 1994, North Korea enlarged Panmungak by adding a third floor. In 1998, South Korea built a new Freedom House for its Red Cross staff and to possibly host reunions of families separated by the Korean War. The new building incorporated the old Freedom House Pagoda within its design.
Since 1953 there have been occasional confrontations and skirmishes within the JSA. The axe murder incident in August 1976 involved the attempted trimming of a tree which resulted in two deaths (Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett). Another incident occurred on 23 November 1984, when a Soviet tourist named Vasily Matuzok (sometimes spelled Matusak), who was part of an official trip to the JSA (hosted by the North), ran across the MDL shouting that he wanted to defect.[10] North Korean troops immediately chased after him, opening fire. Border guards on the South Korean side returned fire, eventually surrounding the North Koreans as they pursued Matusak. One South Korean and three North Korean soldiers were killed in the action, and Matusak was not captured.[11]
In late 2009, South Korean forces in conjunction with the United Nations Command began renovation of its three guard posts and two checkpoint buildings within the JSA compound. Construction was designed to enlarge and modernize the structures. Work was undertaken a year after North Korea finished replacing four JSA guard posts on its side of the MDL.[12]
Villages[edit]
North Korean Kijŏng-dong, seen from South Korea
Both North and South Korea maintain peace villages in sight of each other's side of the DMZ. In the South, Daeseong-dong is administered under the terms of the DMZ. Villagers are classed as Republic of Korea citizens, but are exempt from paying tax and other civic requirements such as military service. In the North, Kijŏng-dong features a number of brightly painted, poured-concrete multi-story buildings and apartments with electric lighting. These features represented an unheard-of level of luxury for rural Koreans, north or south, in the 1950s. The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and white sides of the buildings would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from the border. However, based on scrutiny with modern telescopic lenses, it has been claimed the buildings are mere concrete shells lacking window glass or even interior rooms,[13][14] with the building lights turned on and off at set times and the empty sidewalks swept by a skeleton crew of caretakers in an effort to preserve the illusion of activity.[15]
Flagpoles[edit]
South Korean Daeseong-dong and its flagpole
The world's fourth-tallest flagpole (160m) flying a North Korean flag over Kijŏng-dong near Panmunjom
In the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 98.4 m (323 ft) flagpole in Daeseong-dong, which flies a South Korean flag weighing 130 kilograms (287 pounds). In what some have called the "flagpole war," the North Korean government responded by building the 160 m (525 ft) Panmunjeom flagpole in Kijŏng-dong, only 1.2 km (0.7 mi) west of the border with South Korea. It flies a 270 kg (595 lb) flag of North Korea. As of 2014, the Panmunjom flagpole is the fourth tallest in the world, after the Jeddah Flagpole in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at 170 m (558 ft), the Dushanbe Flagpole in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, at 165 m (541 ft) and the pole at the National Flag Square in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is 162 m (531 ft).[16][17]
DMZ-related incidents and incursions[edit]
Operation Paul Bunyan, to remove a tree in front of the Bridge of No Return, takes place following the axe murder incident in August 1976.
Main article: List of border incidents involving North Korea
Since demarcation, the DMZ has had numerous cases of incidents and incursions by both sides, although the North Korean government typically never acknowledges direct responsibility for any of these incidents (there are exceptions, such as the axe incident).[18] This was particularly intense during the Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969) when a series of skirmishes along the DMZ resulted in the deaths of 43 American, 299 South Korean and 397 North Korean soldiers.[19] This included the Blue House Raid in 1968, an attempt to assassinate President Park Chung Hee at the Blue House.[20]
In 1976, in now-declassified meeting minutes, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Clements told Henry Kissinger that there had been 200 raids or incursions into North Korea from the south, though not by the U.S. military.[21] Details of only a few of these incursions have become public, including raids by South Korean forces in 1967 that had sabotaged about 50 North Korean facilities.[22]
Incursion tunnels[edit]
See also: Tunnel warfare
Since 15 November 1974, South Korea has discovered four tunnels crossing the DMZ that had been dug by North Korea; the orientation of the blasting lines within each tunnel indicated they were dug by North Korea. North Korea claimed that the tunnels were for coal mining; however, no coal was found in the tunnels, which were dug through granite. Some of the tunnel walls were painted black to give the appearance of anthracite.[23]
The tunnels are believed to have been planned as a military invasion route by North Korea. They run in a north-south direction and do not have branches. Following each discovery, engineering within the tunnels has become progressively more advanced. For example, the third tunnel sloped slightly upwards as it progressed southward, to prevent water stagnation. Today, visitors from the south may visit the second, third and fourth tunnels through guided tours.[24]
First tunnel[edit]
The first of the tunnels was discovered on 20 November 1974, by a South Korean Army patrol, noticing steam rising from the ground. The initial discovery was met with automatic fire from North Korean soldiers. Five days later, during a subsequent exploration of this tunnel, US Navy Commander Robert M. Ballinger and ROK Marine Corps Major Kim Hah-chul were killed in the tunnel by a North Korean explosive device. The blast also wounded five Americans and one South Korean from the United Nations Command.
The tunnel, which was about 0.9 by 1.2 m (3 by 4 ft), extended more than 1 km (0.62 mi) beyond the MDL into South Korea. The tunnel was reinforced with concrete slabs and had electric power and lighting. There were weapon storage and sleeping areas. A narrow-gauge railway with carts had also been installed. Estimates based on the tunnel's size suggest it would have allowed considerable numbers of soldiers to pass through it.[25]
Second tunnel[edit]
Entrance to the North Korean-dug 4th Infiltration Tunnel, Korean DMZ
The second tunnel was discovered on 19 March 1975. It is of similar length to the first tunnel. It is located between 50 and 160 m (160 and 520 ft) below ground, but is larger than the first, approximately 2 by 2 m (7 by 7 feet).
Third tunnel[edit]
Main article: Third Tunnel of Aggression
The third tunnel was discovered on 17 October 1978. Unlike the previous two, the third tunnel was discovered following a tip from a North Korean defector. This tunnel is about 1,600 m (5,200 ft) long and about 73 m (240 ft) below ground.[26] Foreign visitors touring the South Korean DMZ may view inside this tunnel using a sloped access shaft.
Fourth tunnel[edit]
A fourth tunnel was discovered on 3 March 1990, north of Haean town in the former Punchbowl battlefield. The tunnel's dimensions are 2 by 2 m (7 by 7 feet), and it is 145 metres (476 ft) deep. The method of construction is almost identical in structure to the second and the third tunnels.[27]
Korean Wall[edit]
The Korean Wall in the demilitarized zone seen through binoculars from the North Korean side
According to North Korea, between 1977 and 1979 the South Korean and United States authorities constructed a concrete wall along the DMZ.[28] North Korea, however, began to propagate information about the wall after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when the symbolism of a wall unjustly dividing a people became more apparent.[29]
Various organisations, such as the North Korean tour guide company Korea Konsult, claimed a wall was dividing Korea, saying that:
In the area south of the Military Demarcation Line, which cuts across Korea at its waist, there is a concrete wall which ... stretches more than 240 km (149 mi) from east to west, is 5–8 m (16–26 ft) high, 10–19 m (33–62 ft) thick at the bottom, and 3–7 m (10–23 ft) wide in the upper part. It is set with wire entanglements and dotted with gun embrasures, look-outs and varieties of military establishments.[30]
In December 1999, Chu Chang-jun, North Korea's ambassador to China, repeated claims that a "wall" divided Korea. He said the south side of the wall is packed with soil, which permits access to the top of the wall and makes it effectively invisible from the south side. He also claimed that it served as a bridgehead for any northward invasion.[31][32]
The United States and South Korea deny the wall's existence, although they do claim there are anti-tank barriers along some sections of the DMZ.[33]
In the RT documentary 10 Days in North Korea, the crew shot footage of a wall as seen from North Korea and described it as a "5 metre high wall stretching from east to west".[34] Dutch journalist and filmmaker Peter Tetteroo also shot footage of a barrier in 2001 which his North Korean guides said was the Korean Wall.[28]
North Korean side of the DMZ[edit]
DMZ, North Korea. Electric fences are used in the Korean Demilitarized Zone as a means to seal off North Korea from South Korea. Behind the fence, there is a strip which has land mines hidden beneath it.
The North Korean side of the DMZ primarily serves to defend North Korea from invasion by South Korean forces. It also serves a similar function as the Berlin Wall and the inner German border did against its own citizens in the former East Germany in that it stops North Korean citizens from defecting to South Korea.[35][36]
From the armistice until 1972, approximately 7,700 South Korean soldiers and agents infiltrated North Korea to sabotage military bases and industrial areas.[37]
North Korea has thousands of artillery pieces near the DMZ. According to a 2018 article in The Economist, North Korea could bombard Seoul with over 10,000 rounds every minute.[38] Experts believe that 60 percent of its total artillery is positioned within a few kilometers of the DMZ acting as a deterrent against any South Korean invasion.
Propaganda[edit]
See also: Propaganda and Psychological warfare
Loudspeaker installations[edit]
From 1953 until 2004 both sides broadcast audio propaganda across the DMZ.[39] Massive loudspeakers mounted on several of the buildings delivered DPRK propaganda broadcasts directed towards the south as well as propaganda radio broadcasts across the border.[13] In 2004, the North and South agreed to end the broadcasts.[39]
In August 2015, a border incident occurred where two South Korean soldiers were wounded after stepping on landmines that had allegedly been laid on the southern side of the DMZ by North Korean forces near an ROK guard post.[40][41] Both North Korea and South Korea then resumed broadcasting propaganda by loudspeaker.[42] After four days of negotiations, on August 25, 2015 South Korea agreed to discontinue the broadcasts following a statement from North Korea's government expressing "regret" for the landmine incident.[43]
On 8 January 2016, in response to North Korea's supposed successful testing of a hydrogen bomb, South Korea resumed broadcasts directed at the north.[44] On 15 April 2016, it was reported that the South Koreans purchased a new stereo system to combat the North's broadcasts.[45]
Balloons[edit]
Main article: Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
Both North and South Korea have held balloon propaganda leaflet campaigns since the Korean War.[46]
In recent years, mainly South Korean non-governmental organizations have been involved in launching balloons targeted at the DMZ and beyond.[47] Due to the winds, the balloons tend to fall near the DMZ where there are mostly North Korean soldiers to see the leaflets.[48] As with the loudspeakers, balloon operations were mutually agreed to be halted between 2004 and 2010.[49] It has been assessed that the activists' balloons may contribute to the decay of remaining cooperation between the Korean governments,[50] and the DMZ has become more militarized in recent years.[51]
Many North Korean leaflets during the Cold War gave instructions and maps to help the targeted South Korean soldiers in defecting. One of the leaflets found on the DMZ included a map of Cho Dae-hum's route of defection to North Korea across the DMZ. In addition to using balloons as a means of delivery, North Koreans have also used rockets to send leaflets to the DMZ.[52]
Civilian Control Line[edit]
Civilian Control Line, Imjingak, Paju, South Korea
Civilian Control Line, South Korea
The Civilian Control Line is a line that designates an additional buffer zone to the DMZ within a distance of 5 to 20 km from the Southern Limit Line of the DMZ. Its purpose is to limit and control the entrance of civilians into the area in order to protect and maintain the security of military facilities and operations near the DMZ. The commander of the 8th US Army ordered the creation of the CCL and it was activated and first became effective in February 1954.[53]
The buffer zone that falls south of the Southern Limit Line is called the Civilian Control Zone. Barbed wire fences and manned military guard posts mark the Civilian Control Line. The Civilian Control Zone is necessary for the military to monitor civilian travel to tourist destinations close to the Southern Limit Line of the DMZ like the discovered infiltration tunnels and tourist observatories. Usually when traveling within the Civilian Control Zone, South Korean soldiers accompany tourist buses and cars as armed guards to monitor the civilians as well as to protect them from North Korean intruders.
Right after the ceasefire, the Civilian Control Zone outside the DMZ encompassed 100 or so empty villages. The government implemented migration measures to attract settlers into the area. As a result, in 1983, when the area delineated by the Civilian Control Line was at its largest, a total of 39,725 residents in 8,799 households were living in the 81 villages located within the Civilian Control Zone.[54]
Most of the tourist and media photos of the "DMZ fence" are actually photos of the CCL fence. The actual DMZ fence on the Southern Limit Line is completely off-limits to everybody except soldiers and it is illegal to take pictures of the DMZ fence. The CCL fence acts more as a deterrent for South Korean civilians from getting too close to the dangerous DMZ and is also the final barrier for North Korean infiltrators if they get past the Southern Limit Line DMZ fence.[55]
Neutral Zone of the Han River Estuary[edit]
The whole estuary of the Han River is deemed a "Neutral Zone" and is off-limits to all civilian vessels and is treated like the rest of the DMZ. Only military vessels are allowed within this neutral zone.
According to the July 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement civil shipping was supposed to be permissible in the Han River estuary and allow Seoul to be connected to the Yellow Sea (West Sea) via the Han River.[56] However, both Koreas and the UNC failed to make this happen. The South Korean government ordered the construction of the Ara Canal to finally connect Seoul to the Yellow Sea (West Sea), which was completed in 2012. Seoul was effectively landlocked from the ocean until 2012. The biggest limitation of the Ara Canal is it is too narrow to handle any vessels except small tourist boats and recreational boats, so Seoul still cannot receive large commercial ships or passenger ships in its port.
In recent years Chinese fishing vessels have taken advantage of the tense situation in the Han River Estuary Neutral Zone and illegally fished in this area due to both the North Korean and South Korean navies never patrolling this area due to the fear of naval battles breaking out. This has led to firefights and sinkings of boats between Chinese fishermen and the South Korean Coast Guard.[57][58]
Castle of Gung Ye[edit]
Within the DMZ itself, in the town of Cheorwon, is the old capital of the kingdom of Taebong (901–918), a regional upstart that became Goryeo, the dynasty that ruled a united Korea from 918 to 1392.
Taebong was founded by the charismatic leader Gung Ye, a brilliant if tyrannical one-eyed ex-Buddhist monk. Rebelling against the kingdom of Silla, Korea's then ruling dynasty, he proclaimed the kingdom of Taebong—also called Later Goguryeo, in reference to the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo (37BC-668AD)—in 901, with himself as king. The kingdom consisted of much of central Korea, including areas around the DMZ. He placed his capital in Cheorwon, a mountainous region that was easily defensible (in the Korean War, this same region would earn the name "the Iron Triangle").
As a former Buddhist monk, Gung Ye actively promoted the religion of Buddhism and incorporated Buddhist ceremonies into the new kingdom. Even after Gung Ye was dethroned by his own generals and replaced by Wang Geon, the man who would rule over a united Korea as the first king of Goryeo, this Buddhist influence would continue, playing a major role in shaping the culture of medieval Korea.
As the ruins of Gung Ye's capital lie in the DMZ itself, visitors cannot see them. Moreover, excavation work and research have been hampered by political realities. In the future, inter-Korean peace may allow for proper archaeological studies to be conducted on the castle site and other historical sites within and underneath the DMZ.[59]
The ruins of the capital city of Taebong, the ruins of the castle of Gung Ye, and King Gung Ye's tomb all lie within the DMZ and are off-limits to everybody except soldiers who patrol the DMZ.[60]
Transportation[edit]
The Donghae Bukbu Line on Korea's east coast. The road and rail link was built for South Koreans visiting the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region in the North.
DMZ Train tour organized by Korail
Panmunjeom is the site of the negotiations that ended the Korean War and is the main center of human activity in the DMZ. The village is located on the main highway and near a railroad connecting the two Koreas.
The railway, which connects Seoul and Pyongyang, was called the Gyeongui Line before division in the 1940s. Currently the South uses the original name, but the North refers to the route as the P'yŏngbu Line. The railway line has been mainly used to carry materials and South Korean workers to the Kaesong Industrial Region. Its reconnection has been seen as part of the general improvement in the relations between North and South in the early part of this century. However, in November 2008 North Korean authorities closed the railway amid growing tensions with the South.[61] Following the death of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, conciliatory talks were held between South Korean officials and a North Korean delegation who attended Kim's funeral. In September 2009, the Kaesong rail and road crossing was reopened.[62]
The road at Panmunjeom, which was known historically as Highway One in the South, was originally the only access point between the two countries on the Korean Peninsula. Passage is comparable to the strict movements that occurred at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Both North and South Korea's roads end in the JSA; the highways do not quite join as there is a 20 cm (8 in) concrete line that divides the entire site. People given the rare permission to cross this border must do so on foot before continuing their journey by road.
In 2007, on the east coast of Korea, the first train crossed the DMZ on the new Donghae Bukbu (Tonghae Pukpu) Line. The new rail crossing was built adjacent to the road which took South Koreans to Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, a region that has significant cultural importance for all Koreans. More than one million civilian visitors crossed the DMZ until the route was closed following the shooting of a 53-year-old South Korean tourist in July 2008.[63] After a joint investigation was rebuffed by North Korea, the South Korean government suspended tours to the resort. Since then the resort and the Donghae Bukbu Line have effectively been closed by North Korea.[64][65] Currently, the South Korean Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail) organizes tours to DMZ with special DMZ themed trains.[66]
Nature reserve[edit]
In the past half century, the Korean DMZ has been a deadly place for humans, making habitation impossible. Only around the village of Panmunjeom and more recently the Donghae Bukbu Line on Korea's east coast have there been regular incursions by people.[67][68]
This natural isolation along the 250 km (160 mi) length of the DMZ has created an involuntary park which is now recognized as one of the most well-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world.[69] In 1966 it was first proposed to turn the DMZ into a national park.[70]
Several endangered animal and plant species now exist among the heavily fortified fences, landmines and listening posts. These include the endangered red-crowned crane (a staple of Asian art), the white-naped crane, and, potentially, the extremely rare Siberian tiger,[69] Amur leopard, and Asiatic black bear. Ecologists have identified some 2,900 plant species, 70 types of mammals and 320 kinds of birds within the narrow buffer zone.[69] Additional surveys are now being conducted throughout the region.[71]
The DMZ owes its varied biodiversity to its geography, which crosses mountains, prairies, swamps, lakes, and tidal marshes. Environmentalists hope that the DMZ will be conserved as a wildlife refuge, with a well-developed set of objective and management plans vetted and in place. In 2005, CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner, on a visit to North Korea, said that he would financially support any plans to turn the DMZ into a peace park and a UN-protected World Heritage Site.[72]
In September 2011, South Korea submitted a nomination form to Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) in UNESCO for designation of 435 km2 (168 sq mi) in the southern part of the DMZ below the Military Demarcation Line, as well as 2,979 km2 (1,150 sq mi) in privately controlled areas, as a Biosphere Reserve according to the Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.[73] MAB National Committee of the Republic of Korea mentioned only southern part of DMZ to be nominated since there was no response from Pyongyang when it requested Pyongyang to push jointly. North Korea is a member nation of the international coordinating council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, which designates Biosphere Reserves.[74]
North Korea opposed the application as a violation of the armistice agreement during the council's meeting in Paris on July 9 to 13. The South Korean government's attempt to designate the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve was turned down at UNESCO's MAB council meeting in Paris in July 2012. Pyongyang expressed its opposition by sending letters to 32 council member countries, except for South Korea, and the UNESCO headquarters a month prior to the meeting. At the council meeting, Pyongyang said the designation violated the Armistice Agreement.[75]
See also[edit]
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Iron Curtain
Bamboo Curtain
United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus
Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone
Peace lines
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If I Can't Have You
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"If I Can't Have You"
Song by Bee Gees
A-side
"Stayin' Alive"
Released
13 December 1977 (US)
6 January 1978 (UK)
Format
7" single, 12" single
Recorded
January and February 1977, Le Chateau, Herouville, France
September 1977, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Disco
Length
3:25
Label
RSO
Songwriter(s)
Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)
Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
"If I Can't Have You" is a disco song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb in 1977. The song initially appeared on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in a version by Yvonne Elliman, released in November 1977. The Bee Gees' version appeared a month later as the B-side of "Stayin' Alive".
The song later appeared on the Bee Gees' compilation Their Greatest Hits: The Record. The remixed version was released and remastered in the compilation Bee Gees Greatest in 2007 and marked the return of the Bee Gees to the US Hot Dance Tracks charts after 28 years. According to Maurice, this track was the first song they did while they were recording the other songs for the film. The recording was started at Château d'Hérouville as a basic track only and completed later at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 Yvonne Elliman version
1.1 Personnel
2 Chart performance
2.1 Weekly singles charts
2.2 Year-end charts
3 Kim Wilde version
3.1 Chart performance
4 If I Can't Have You (The Disco Boys remix)
4.1 Track listing
4.2 Charts
5 Jess Glynne version
5.1 Track listing
5.2 Chart performance
5.3 Release history
6 Other cover versions
6.1 Samples and interpolations
7 References
8 External links
Yvonne Elliman version[edit]
"If I Can't Have You"
A-side label of U.S. vinyl single
Single by Yvonne Elliman
from the album Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
B-side
"Good Sign"
Released
November 1977 (Saturday Night Fever soundtrack)
23 January 1978 (single)
Format
7"
45 rpm
Recorded
1977
Genre
Disco
Length
2:57
4:00 (extended version)
Label
RSO
Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Barry
Robin
Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)
Freddie Perren
Yvonne Elliman singles chronology
"I Can't Get You Outa My Mind"
(1977) "If I Can't Have You"
(1977) "Moment by Moment"
(1978)
"I Can't Get You Outa My Mind"
(1977) "If I Can't Have You"
(1978) "Moment by Moment"
(1978)
Saturday Night Fever track listing
17 tracks [show]
Side one
"Stayin' Alive"
"How Deep Is Your Love"
"Night Fever"
"More Than a Woman"
"If I Can't Have You"
Side two
"A Fifth of Beethoven"
"More Than a Woman"
"Manhattan Skyline"
"Calypso Breakdown"
Side three
"Night on Disco Mountain"
"Open Sesame"
"Jive Talkin'"
"You Should Be Dancing"
"Boogie Shoes"
Side four
"Salsation"
"K-Jee"
"Disco Inferno"
Audio sample
file
help
The song was recorded by Yvonne Elliman for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Although Yvonne Elliman had cut her 1976 album Love Me with producer Freddie Perren, who was a major force in the disco movement (Perren had produced the Sylvers' 1976 number 1 "Boogie Fever" and would soon collaborate with Gloria Gaynor on the disco anthem "I Will Survive"), Love Me had showcased Elliman not as a disco artist but rather as a pop ballad singer, notably on the title cut, a Barry Gibb composition which had provided Elliman with an international hit. It was originally intended that Elliman's contribution to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack would be another ballad written by the Gibb brothers, "How Deep Is Your Love".
Yvonne Elliman
Meanwhile, the Bee Gees produced their own version of "If I Can't Have You" for the film. However, RSO Records chairman and Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood, who was executive-producing the Saturday Night Fever album, dictated that the Bee Gees themselves record "How Deep Is Your Love" with Elliman being given a shot at the disco-style "If I Can't Have You".
The decision proved a success, as the soundtrack's first single, the Bee Gees' version of the ballad "How Deep Is Your Love", shot to number one, followed to the top spot by the soundtrack's second and third singles, also by the Gibb brothers, "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever". Elliman's "If I Can't Have You", produced by Perren, was released as the fourth single off the Saturday Night Fever album in February 1978. The first single off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack not performed by the Bee Gees, "If I Can't Have You" would become the fourth number 1 hit from the film, reaching the top spot on the Hot 100 in Billboard dated 13 May 1978, ending an eight-week number 1 tenure by "Night Fever". "If I Can't Have You" was the fourth consecutive US number 1 to be co-written by Barry Gibb, and the sixth consecutive to be released on the RSO record label. The B-side of the single was a track from the Love Me album, "Good Sign", a composition by Melissa Manchester and Carole Bayer Sager which had previously served as the B-side of Elliman's hit "Hello Stranger".
Far from the success going to Elliman's head or giving her ideas of following up the sudden disco success with a deeper foray into the genre, a contemporary interview by journalist Peter J. Boyer found Elliman dismissive of her number 1 hit, referring to it in conversation only casually as "that current thing from Saturday Night Fever". In spite of the coattail success she's had with "If I Can't Have You", it's a disco song and Elliman decided her broad, husky vocals are best suited elsewhere. "If I Can't Have You" was featured on Elliman's February 1978 album release Night Flight, which apart from that track was produced by Robert Appère and was not disco-oriented. No track from Night Flight was issued as a follow-up single to "If I Can't Have You", Elliman's next single being a rock ballad entitled "Savannah" which failed to consolidate Elliman's potential mainstream stardom. Elliman did return to disco music in 1979 with "Love Pains" which returned her to the Top 40 one more time before she dropped out of the music scene in the 1980s.
"If I Can't Have You" (Yvonne Elliman's version) was also featured in the 1999 film Big Daddy as well as on the film's soundtrack.
Personnel[edit]
Yvonne Elliman - vocals
Bob Bowles – guitar
Sonny Burke – piano
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Scott Edwards – bass
James Gadson – drums
Freddie Perren – synthesizer, keyboards, percussion
Bob Zimmitti – percussion
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly singles charts[edit]
Chart (1978)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 9
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[3] 24
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[4] 2
Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] 1
France (SNEP)[6] 5
Irish Singles Chart[7] 9
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[8] 28
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9] 31
Netherlands[10] 28
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[11] 6
UK (Official Charts Company)[12] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[13] 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[14] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles[13] 60
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [15] 1
U.S. Record World [10] 2
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1978)
Rank
Australia [16] 52
Canada [17] 13
UK [18] 45
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [19] 19
U.S. Cash Box [20] 21
Preceded by
"Night Fever" by Bee Gees Billboard Hot 100 number-one single (Yvonne Elliman version)
13 May 1978 Succeeded by
"With a Little Luck" by Wings
Kim Wilde version[edit]
"If I Can't Have You"
Single by Kim Wilde
from the album The Singles Collection 1981–1993
B-side
"Never Felt So Alive"
Released
28 June 1993
Format
7"
12"
CD
cassette
Recorded
1993
Genre
Disco
house
Length
3:27
Label
MCA
Songwriter(s)
Barry
Robin
Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)
Ricki Wilde
Kim Wilde singles chronology
"Million Miles Away"
(1992) "If I Can't Have You"
(1993) "In My Life"
(1993)
"Million Miles Away"
(1992) "If I Can't Have You"
(1993) "In My Life"
(1993)
The song was covered in 1993 by British singer Kim Wilde and recorded as one of two new tracks on her compilation album The Singles Collection 1981–1993. The single reached number 12 in the UK. It became Wilde's biggest hit of the 1990s and one of the biggest hits of her career in Australia, where it reached number 3. It was released in several extended remixes on the 12" and CD-single formats. The B-side was an exclusive non-album track called "Never Felt So Alive".
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1993)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[21] 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[22] 29
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[23] 6
Germany (Official German Charts)[24] 51
Ireland (IRMA)[25] 9
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[26] 23
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[27] 18
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[28] 24
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[29] 18
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[30] 12
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[31] 14
If I Can't Have You (The Disco Boys remix)[edit]
"If I Can't Have You (The Disco Boys remix)"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Bee Gees Greatest
Released
2 November 2007 (2007-11-02)
Format
CD single
digital download
Genre
House
disco
Length
3:36 (radio edit)
Label
Rhino
Reprise
Songwriter(s)
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)
Bee Gees
The Disco Boys
Finger & Kadel
Bee Gees singles chronology
"Ups & Downs"
(2005) "If I Can't Have You (The Disco Boys remix)"
(2007) "Stayin' Alive (Serban mix)"
(2017)
"Ups & Downs"
(2005) "If I Can't Have You" (The Disco Boys remix)
(2007) "Stayin' Alive (Serban mix)"
(2017)
On 2 November 2007, Rhino Records and Reprise Records released a remix version of "If I Can't Have You" by German house music production duo The Disco Boys. The song was released as a single from the remastered version of Bee Gees Greatest (2007), originally released in 1979.
Track listing[edit]
Digital download — US version[32]
"If I Can't Have You" (The Disco Boys remix) – 6:55
CD single
"If I Can't Have You" (The Disco Boys radio edit) – 3:36
"If I Can't Have You" (The Disco Boys remix) – 6:35
"If I Can't Have You" – 3:22
"If I Can't Have You" (The Disco Boys dub mix) – 6:55
Charts[edit]
Chart (2007)
Peak
position
Germany (Official German Charts)[33]
71
Jess Glynne version[edit]
"If I Can't Have You"
Single by Jess Glynne
Released
22 May 2016
Format
Digital download
Recorded
2016
Genre
Dance-pop
disco
Length
3:18
Label
Warner
Songwriter(s)
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
Robin Gibb
Jess Glynne singles chronology
"Kill the Lights"
(2016) "If I Can't Have You"
(2016)
"Kill the Lights"
(2016) "If I Can't Have You"
(2016)
In 2016, English singer and songwriter Jess Glynne re-recorded "If I Can't Have You" in support of the French musical Saturday Night Fever, which is expected to be premiered in 2017. Warner Music France released her rendition as a digital single on 22 May 2016.[34]
Track listing[edit]
Digital download[34]
No.
Title
Length
1. "If I Can't Have You" 3:18
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (2016)
Peak
position
France (SNEP)[35]
104
Release history[edit]
Region
Date
Label
Format
Belgium 22 May 2016 Warner Digital download
France
Other cover versions[edit]
English pop duo This Way Up covered "If I Can't Have You" in 1987, from their album Feelin' Good About It.
Jesse Hultberg, the first performer to cover the song as a ballad, recorded it in his 1994 solo album. A video of the song can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnO3IqnAeV4
Eve's Plum, a pop rock band that existed from 1991 to 1998, recorded a cover in 1995 which found its way onto a compilation CD.
An abbreviated version of "If I Can't Have You" was included in the "70's Moment Medley" featured on the 1998 Gloria Estefan single release "Don't Let This Moment End".
Will Pan recorded a Mandarin language version for his 2003 album Pass Me The Mic.[36]
Australian group Young Divas covered the song in 2007 for their second album New Attitude.
Adam Lambert performed the song as his selection during disco week of season 8 of American Idol. Instead of performing the song the original way, Lambert made it into a ballad, which was highly praised by the judges. Jesse Hultberg had already recorded the song as a ballad in 1994.
Linda Eder covered the song on her album Soundtrack.
Sharleen Spiteri covered the song for her 2010 album The Movie Songbook.
In 2012, the song was covered by Naya Rivera in the sixteenth episode of the third season of Glee.
American singer, Demi Lovato covered the song for the tribute special program Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees, where she performed at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017.
Samples and interpolations[edit]
German Eurodance group Chyp-Notic's 1990 single "If I Can't Have U" contains an interpolation of "If I Can't Have You".
Eurodance artist B.G., the Prince of Rap uses the melody of the chorus for his 1995 song "Can't Love You".
LFO reworked "If I Can't Have You" as "Can't Have You" for their 1999 self-titled album only replicating the choruses, the verses being changed to rapping.
DJ Khaled sampled part of this song in his 2007 single "Brown Paper Bag", from his album We the Best.
Tony Di Bart's 1994 Eurodance single "The Real Thing" sampled the chorus.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Yvonne Elliman – If I Can't Have You" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
Jump up ^ "If I can't have you in Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "If I can't have you in Canadian Top Singles Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
Jump up ^ Steve Hawtin; et al. "Tsort – Chart positions around the world". Tsort.info.
Jump up ^ "If I can't have you in Irish Chart". IRMA. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Only results when searching "If I can't have you"
Jump up ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Yvonne Elliman search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Yvonne Elliman – If I Can't Have You" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
^ Jump up to: a b "Songs from the Year 1978". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Charts.org.nz – Yvonne Elliman – If I Can't Have You". Top 40 Singles.
Jump up ^ "1978 Top 40 Official UK Singles Archive – 27th May 1978". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Yvonne Elliman awards on Allmusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 80.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
Jump up ^ "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 1978 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
Jump up ^ "Australian-charts.com – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Austriancharts.at – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
Jump up ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You". GfK Entertainment Charts.
Jump up ^ "Chart Track: Week 24, 1993". Irish Singles Chart.
Jump up ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Kim Wilde search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
Jump up ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You". Singles Top 100.
Jump up ^ "Swisscharts.com – Kim Wilde – If I Can't Have You". Swiss Singles Chart.
Jump up ^ "Kim Wilde: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
Jump up ^ "Kim Wilde Chart History (Dance Club Songs)" Billboard. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
Jump up ^ http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/if-i-cant-have-you-the-disco-boys-remix-us-version-bee-gees/0603497984442
Jump up ^ "Musicline.de – Bee Gees Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "If I Can't Have You – Single". iTunes (Belgium). Retrieved 2016-07-09.
Jump up ^ "Lescharts.com – Jess Glynne – If I Can't Have You" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
Jump up ^ Will Pan/Pass Me The Mic album liner notes.
External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Bee Gees singles discography
1960s
1963
"The Battle of the Blue and the Grey" / "The Three Kisses of Love"
"Timber!" / "Take Hold of That Star"
1964
"Peace of Mind" / "Don't Say Goodbye"
"Claustrophobia" / "Could It Be"
"Turn Around, Look at Me" / "(Theme From) The Travels of Jamie McPheeters"
1965
"Every Day I Have to Cry" / "You Wouldn't Know"
"Wine and Women" / "Follow the Wind"
"I Was A Lover, A Leader of Men" / "And the Children Laughing"
1966
"I Want Home" / "Cherry Red"
"Monday's Rain" / "All of My Life"
"Spicks and Specks" / "I Am the World"
1967
"Born a Man" / "Big Chance"
"New York Mining Disaster 1941" / "I Can't See Nobody"
"To Love Somebody" / "Close Another Door"
"Holiday" / "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You"
"Massachusetts" / "Barker of the UFO"
"World" / "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World"
1968
"Words" / "Sinking Ships"
"Jumbo" / "The Singer Sang His Song"
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You" / "Kitty Can"
"I Started a Joke" / "Kilburn Towers"
1969
"First of May" / "Lamplight"
"Tomorrow Tomorrow" / "Sun in My Morning"
"Don't Forget to Remember" / "The Lord"
1970s
1970
"If Only I Had My Mind on Something Else" / "Sweetheart" (US)
"I.O.I.O." / "Sweetheart"
"Lonely Days" / "Man for All Seasons"
1971
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" / "Country Woman"
"Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" / "Walking Back to Waterloo"
1972
"My World" / "On Time"
"Run to Me" / "Road to Alaska"
"Alive" / Paper Mache, Cabbages and Kings"
1973
"Saw a New Morning" / "My Life Has Been a Song"
"Wouldn't I Be Someone" / "Elisa"
1974
"Mr. Natural" / "It Doesn't Matter Much to Me"
"Throw a Penny" / "I Can't Let You Go"
"Charade" / "Heavy Breathing"
1975
"Jive Talkin'" / "Wind of Change"
"Nights on Broadway" / "Edge of the Universe"
1976
"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" / "Country Lanes"
"You Should Be Dancing" / "Subway"
"Love So Right" / "You Stepped Into My Life"
1977
"Boogie Child" / "Lovers"
"Edge of the Universe (live)" / "Words (live)"
"How Deep Is Your Love" / "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (live)
"Stayin' Alive" / "If I Can't Have You"
1978
"Night Fever" / "Down the Road (live)"
"Too Much Heaven" / "Rest Your Love on Me"
1979
"Tragedy" / "Until"
"Love You Inside Out" / "I'm Satisfied"
1980s
1981
"He's a Liar"
"Living Eyes" / "I Still Love You"
1983
"The Woman in You" / "Stayin' Alive"
"Someone Belonging to Someone" / "I Love You Too Much" (instrumental)
1987
"You Win Again" / "Backtafunk"
"E.S.P." / "Overnight"
1989
"Ordinary Lives" / "Wing and a Prayer"
"One" / "Flesh and Blood"
1990s
1990
"Bodyguard" / "Will You Ever Let Me"
1991
"Secret Love" / "Party with No Name"
"When He's Gone" / "True Confessions"
"The Only Love" / "You Win Again" (live)
"Happy Ever After" / "Evolution"
1993
"Paying the Price of Love" / "My Destiny"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" / "Decadance"
1994
"How to Fall in Love, Part 1" / "Fallen Angel"
"Kiss of Life" / "855-7019"
1997
"Alone" / "Rings Around the Moon"
"I Could Not Love You More" / "Love Never Dies" (EUR)
"Still Waters (Run Deep)" / "Love Never Dies"
2000s
2001
"This Is Where I Came In" / "Just in Case"
Other countries
1968
"And the Sun Will Shine" / "Really and Sincerely" (France)
1970
"Let There Be Love" / "Really and Sincerely" (Netherlands)
1971
"When the Swallows Fly" / "Give Your Best" (Netherlands)
"Morning of my Life" / "To Love Somebody"
1972
"Israel" / "Dearest" (Netherlands)
"Sea of Smiling Faces" / "Please Don't Turn Out the Lights"
1977
"Children of the World" / "Boogie Child" (Australia}
1988
"Crazy for Your Love" / "You Win Again (Remix)"
"Angela" / "You Win Again (Remix)" (Germany, Netherlands)
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Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Side one
"Stayin' Alive"
"How Deep Is Your Love"
"Night Fever"
"More Than a Woman" (The Bee Gees)
"If I Can't Have You" (Yvonne Elliman)
Side two
"A Fifth of Beethoven" (Walter Murphy)
"More Than a Woman" (Tavares)
"Manhattan Skyline" (David Shire)
"Calypso Breakdown" (Ralph MacDonald)
Side three
"Night on Disco Mountain" (David Shire)
"Open Sesame" (Kool & the Gang)
"Jive Talkin'"
"You Should Be Dancing" (The Bee Gees)
"Boogie Shoes" (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Side four
"Salsation" (David Shire)
"K-Jee" (MFSB)
"Disco Inferno" (The Trammps)
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Kim Wilde
Studio albums
Kim Wilde
Select
Catch as Catch Can
Teases & Dares
Another Step
Close
Love Moves
Love Is
Now & Forever
Never Say Never
Come Out and Play
Snapshots
Wilde Winter Songbook
Remix albums
The Remix Collection
Compilations
The Very Best of Kim Wilde
The Singles Collection 1981–1993
The Very Best of Kim Wilde
The Hits Collection
Singles
"Kids in America"
"Chequered Love"
"Water on Glass"
"Cambodia"
"View from a Bridge"
"Child Come Away"
"Love Blonde"
"Dancing in the Dark"
"House of Salome"
"The Second Time"
"The Touch"
"Rage to Love"
"Schoolgirl"
"You Keep Me Hangin' On"
"Another Step (Closer to You)"
"Say You Really Want Me"
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
"Hey Mister Heartache"
"You Came"
"Never Trust a Stranger"
"Four Letter Word"
"Love in the Natural Way"
"It's Here"
"Time"
"Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love)"
"I Can't Say Goodbye"
"World in Perfect Harmony"
"Love Is Holy"
"Heart over Mind"
"Who Do You Think You Are"
"Million Miles Away"
"If I Can't Have You"
"In My Life"
"Kids in America 1994"
"Breakin' Away"
"This I Swear"
"Shame"
"Loved"
"Born to Be Wild"
"Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime"
"You Came (2006)"
"Perfect Girl"
"Together We Belong"
"Baby Obey Me"
"It's Alright"
"Sleeping Satellite"
"To France"
"Ever Fallen in Love"
"F U Kristmas!"
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"Real Love"
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"Don't Be So Hard on Yourself"
"Take Me Home"
"Ain't Got Far to Go"
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