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List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea

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FieldValue
postAmbassador
bodythe Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
incumbentVacant
insigniaMID emblem.png
incumbentsinceDecember 6,2025
departmentMinistry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Pyongyang
styleHis Excellency
reports_toMinister of Foreign Affairs
seatPyongyang
appointerPresident of Russia
termlengthAt the pleasure of the president
website
insigniacaptionEmblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry

Embassy of Russia in Pyongyang

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. The post of Russian ambassador to North Korea is currently vacant since December 6, 2025 due to the death of Aleksandr Matsegora.

History of diplomatic relations

Main article: North Korea–Russia relations

The Russian Empire established relations with the Joseon Dynasty in 1884. 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
  • Paul Pavlov, appointed December 13, 1898.

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

NameAppointmentCredentials presentedTerminationNotes
Terentii ShtykovOctober 16, 1948January 14, 1949December 14, 1950
December 14, 1950July 31, 1953
July 31, 1953August 28, 1953June 17, 1955
June 17, 1955July 26, 1955February 22, 1957
Aleksandr PuzanovFebruary 22, 1957April 8, 1957June 30, 1962
June 30, 1962August 13, 1962May 15, 1965
May 15, 1965June 4, 1965April 15, 1967
Nikolai SudarikovApril 15, 1967May 18, 1967August 8, 1974
August 8, 1974October 25, 1974December 24, 1982
December 24, 1982January 20, 1983October 13, 1987
Gennady BartoshevichOctober 13, 1987October 10, 1990
Aleksandr KaptoOctober 10, 1990December 25, 1991

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

NameAppointmentCredentials presentedTerminationNotes
Aleksandr KaptoDecember 26, 1991January 24, 1992
Yuri FadeyevJanuary 24, 1992August 12, 1996
Valery DenisovAugust 12, 1996July 9, 2001
Andrei KarlovJuly 9, 2001December 20, 2006
Valery SukhininDecember 20, 2006April 5, 2012
Aleksandr TimoninApril 5, 2012December 26, 2014
Aleksandr MatsegoraDecember 26, 2014March 9, 2015December 6, 2025

Notes

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

References

  1. "Embassy of Russia to the DPRK". [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)]].
  2. "Ambassador's Welcome Word". [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)]].
  3. Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921–1922. (1922). {{Google books. 9OdAAAAAYAAJ. ''Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament,'' p. 32.. hauDIGtLbnsC. ''The History of Korea,'' p. 107.
  4. (October 15, 1948). "Unfriendly act laid to Russia by Korea".
  5. Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002). {{Google books. -AE-xG7Z3gYC. ''The Tide at Sunrise,'' p. 214.
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