List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea explained

Post:	Ambassador
Body:	the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Insignia:	MID emblem.png
Incumbentsince:	December 26, 2014
Department:	Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Pyongyang
Style:	His Excellency
Reports To:	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat:	Pyongyang
Appointer:	President of Russia
Termlength:	At the pleasure of the President
Insigniacaption:	Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the Supreme Leader and the Government of North Korea.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Pyongyang.^[1] The post of Russian Ambassador to North Korea is currently held by, incumbent since December 26, 2014.^[2]

History of diplomatic relations

See main article: North Korea–Russia relations. The Russian Empire established relations with the Joseon Dynasty in 1884.^[3] 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 the 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. 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 Chosun 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^[3]
• Paul Pavlov,^[4] appointed December 13, 1898.^[3]

Ambassadors from the Soviet Union to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1948 - 1991)

Name	Appointment	Credentials presented	Termination	Notes
Terentii Shtykov	October 16, 1948	January 14, 1949	December 14, 1950
	December 14, 1950		July 31, 1953
	July 31, 1953	August 28, 1953	June 17, 1955
	June 17, 1955	July 26, 1955	February 22, 1957
Aleksandr Puzanov	February 22, 1957	April 8, 1957	June 30, 1962
	June 30, 1962	August 13, 1962	May 15, 1965
	May 15, 1965	June 4, 1965	April 15, 1967
Nikolai Sudarikov	April 15, 1967	May 18, 1967	August 8, 1974
	August 8, 1974	October 25, 1974	December 24, 1982
	December 24, 1982	January 20, 1983	October 13, 1987
	October 13, 1987		October 10, 1990
Aleksandr Kapto	October 10, 1990		December 25, 1991

Ambassadors from the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1991 - present)

Name	Appointment	Credentials presented	Termination	Notes
Aleksandr Kapto	December 26, 1991		January 24, 1992
	January 24, 1992		August 12, 1996
	August 12, 1996		July 9, 2001
Andrei Karlov	July 9, 2001		December 20, 2006
	December 20, 2006		April 5, 2012
	April 5, 2012		December 26, 2014
	December 26, 2014	March 9, 2015

See also

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

References

• Funabashi, Yōichi. (2007). The Peninsula Question: a Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ; 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. ; ; 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Embassy of Russia to the DPRK . Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 25 October 2019.
2. Web site: Ambassador's Welcome Word. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 25 October 2019.
3. Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921–1922. (1922). ; excerpt, "Treaty and Diplomatic Relations Between Korea and Russia. Treaty of Amity and Commerce dated June 24, 1884"; Kim, Chun-gil. (2005).
4. Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002).