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April 14, 1969	Record of a Conversation with Kim Il Sung, General Secretary of the KWP CC and Chairman of the DPRK Cabinet of Ministers Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sought the help of Kim Il Sung in influencing China, which was in a border dispute with the Soviet Union. Requesting that they "exercise political influence on Peking."
December 2, 1969	From the Journal of N.G. Sudarikov, 'Record of a Conversation with Kim Il, Member of the KWP CC Politburo and First Deputy Chairman of the DPRK Cabinet of Ministers' Sudarikov and Kim discuss North Korea's debt and other economic problems.
April 1956	Memo from K. Koval to the CPSU CC, on Soviet provision of postwar aid to the DPRK Describes in detail the progress made as of January 1956 on the DPRK-USSR agreement that the USSR provide postwar aid from 1953 to 1957. Also lists free aid provided by China and other socialist states.
November 27, 1970	Telegram to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Minister of External Trade N. Patolichev The Minister writes about the DPRK’s failure to fulfill its trade obligations to the USSR. While the DPRK continues to blames its inability to deliver its goods on infrastructural weaknesses and political tensions on the peninsula, the Ministry finds that these problems should not deter the production and export of certain goods. The DPRK’s debt amounts to more than 60 million rubles, and the trade gap shows no signs of decreasing.
September 26, 1956	Telegram from Ponomarev to the CPSU Central Committee Peng Dehuai informs the Soviet delegation that the DPRK has not published the results of the Korean Workers' Party Central Committee Pllenum as promised. Peng suggests that if the DPRK fails to publish the resolutions, another joint delegation should be sent to Pyongyang.
September 15, 1956	Telegram from V. Ivanov to A.I. Mikoyan
August 17, 1953	Ciphered Telegram from Molotov to Krushchev and Malenkov Kim Il Sung expresses his wishes to visit Moscow to discuss political, economic, and military issues that might rise up after the armistice is signed.
August 7, 1953	Ciphered Telegram from Suzdalev The DPRK would request of the USSR to help in the restoration of almost completely destroyed industrial enterprises (list of them given). Suzdalev notes that it would be good to invite Kim Il Sung and his associates to discuss these issues.
August 5, 1953	Ciphered Telegram from Suzdalev Discussing North Korea's request for Soviet assistance on different restoration project tasks and the leading industrial enterprises of the country.
December 14, 1960	Journal of Soviet Ambassador in the DPRK A.M. Puzanov for 14 December 1960 Emil Stanciu and A.M. Puzanov share information obtained from separately interacting with Kim Il Sung and his close aides, commenting that Korean leaders barely mention the aid which the Soviet Union and other socialist countries are giving the DPRK.