The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official representative of the

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and the

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to the

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and the

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. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in

Pyongyang Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...

. The post of Russian ambassador to North Korea is currently held by

Aleksandr Matsegora Aleksandr Ivanoich Matsegora (; born 21 November 1955) is a Soviet and Russian diplomat who serves as Ambassador of Russia to North Korea since 2014. Biography In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Mosco ...

, incumbent since December 26, 2014.

History of diplomatic relations

The

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established relations with the

Joseon Dynasty Joseon ( ; ; also romanized as ''Chosun''), officially Great Joseon (), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom w ...

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

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in exile. In 1948, three years after the end of

Japanese rule in Korea From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late 1800s. Both Korea (Joseon) and Japan had been under polic ...

, the USSR recognised only one government on the

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—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly

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. Relations continue up to the present day, with the Russian Federation as the USSR's

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List of heads of mission

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Chosun Dynasty

Karl Ivanovich Weber Karl Ivanovich Weber (also Carl von Waeber; , , Liepāja – 8 January 1910) was a diplomat of the Russian Empire and a personal friend to King Gojong of Korea's Joseon Dynasty. He is best known for his 1885–1897 service as Russia's first cons ...

, appointed October 14, 1885

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Korean Empire

(continued from above) *

Alexey Shpeyer Alexey Nikolayevich Shpeyer (; 1854–1916) was a diplomat from the Russian Empire. The Russian government had intended to send him to Korea in 1895 to replace Karl Ivanovich Weber as Russian consul general in Korea, but at the request of King Go ...

, appointed March 28, 1898 *

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,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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