List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea

Russian Ambassador to the North Korea
Arms of the Russian Federation
Incumbent Valery Sukhinin
Website	http://www.dprk.mid.ru/

This is a List of Ambassadors of Russia to North Korea. The Russian Empire established relations with the Joseon Dynasty in 1884.^[1] However Korea was deprived of its right to conduct independent foreign policy by the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the eventual successor to the Russian Empire) did not formally recognise Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile. In 1948, three years after the end of Japanese rule in Korea, the USSR recognised only one government on the Korean peninsula—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly North Korea.^[2] Relations continue up to the present day, with the Russian Federation as the USSR's successor state.

List of heads of mission

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Joseon Dynasty

• Karl Ivanovich Weber, appointed October 14, 1885

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Korean Empire

• Karl Ivanovich Weber (continued from above)
• Alexey Shpeyer, appointed March 28, 1898^[1]
• Paul Pavlov,^[3] appointed December 13, 1898.^[1]

Ambassadors from the Soviet Union to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Terentii Shtykov^[4]
• Vasily Moskovsky^[5]

Ambassadors from the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Andrei Karlov, 2001–2007^[6]
• Valery Sukhinin (СУХИНИН Валерий Евгеньевич), 2007–present.^[7]

See also

• Russia-Korea Treaty of 1884
• List of diplomatic missions in North Korea
• List of Ambassadors from Russia to South Korea

Notes

1. Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament, p. 32., p. 32, at Google Books; excerpt, "Treaty and Diplomatic Relations Between Korea and Russia. Treaty of Amity and Commerce dated June 24, 1884"; Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). The History of Korea, p. 107., p. 107, at Google Books
2. "Unfriendly act laid to Russia by Korea", The New York Times, 1948-10-15, retrieved 2011-04-28
3. Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002). The Tide at Sunrise, p. 214., p. 214, at Google Books
4. Andrei Lankov, "North Korea in 1945-48: The Soviet Occupation and the Birth of the State," in Lankov, From Stalin to Kim Il Sung--The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960, p. 3.
5. Funabashi, Yōichi. (2007). The Peninsula Question: a Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis, p. 555., p. 555, at Google Books
6. Funabashi, pp. 168-169., p. 168, at Google Books
7. Посольство в Пхеньяне

References

• Funabashi, Yōichi. (2007). The Peninsula Question: a Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815730101; OCLC 156811113
• Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699
• Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). The History of Korea. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313332968; ISBN 9780313038532; OCLC 217866287
• Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 12923609
• Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner. (1974). The Tide at Sunrise: a History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. New York: Charterhouse. OCLC 422325975