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 This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant ...

in Pyongyang. The post of Russian Ambassador to North Korea is currently held by , incumbent since December 26, 2014.

History of diplomatic relations

The Russian Empire established relations with the Joseon Dynasty in 1884.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). 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 Between 1910 and 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Joseon Korea had come into the Japanese sphere of influence with the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876; a complex coalition of the Meiji government, military, and business offici ...

, 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 Alexey Nikolayevich Shpeyer (russian: Алексей Николаевич Шпейер; 1854–1916) was a Russians, Russian diplomat. The Russian government had intended to send him to Korea in 1895 to replace Karl Ivanovich Weber as Russian cons ...

, appointed March 28, 1898 *

Paul Pavlov Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

,Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002). appointed December 13, 1898.

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

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

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
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