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December 7, 1955	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 7 December 1955 Ivanov speaks with Kim Il Sung about the proceedings of the most recent KWP CC plenum. The plenum touched upon plans to improve North Korea’s agriculture sector. Ivanov describes in length Kim’s accusation of Chinese and Soviet Korean party members of undermining the party leadership. Ivanov advises against categorizing party members as Soviet, Chinese, or local.
December 6, 1955	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 6 December 1955 Nam Il tells Ivanov that Kim Il Sung is actively working to settle the issue of citizenship among Soviet Koreans in the party. Kim acknowledges that granting them citizenship could help ease relations between them and local Koreans. Nam insists that Kim does not believe that the Soviet Koreans are ill-intentioned.
November 22, 1956	Memorandum of Conversation with Bak Uiwan on 22 November 1956 Discussion with Bak Uiwan, who notes that the KWP's atmosphere is still tense following the August Plenum. Uiwan claimed Kim Il Sung agreed with the suggestions of the Sino-Soviet delegation (Mikoyan and Dehuai) in order to avoid tension in the meeting, but had no intention of following through.
July 12, 1955	Synopsis of the Political Report of the Soviet Embassy in the DPRK for 1955 The Soviet Embassy provides a synopsis on the political report of the DPRK regarding its economic and domestic political situation, foreign policy, the Embassy's work, and general concluding remarks.
June 21, 1955	Record of Conversation with Deputy DPRK Minister of Culture and Propaganda Jeong Ryul Jeong Ryul provideds a brief on the concluding meeting of the KWP CC Presidium, in which steps to further develop agriculture were discussed.
April 13, 1955	Record of a Conversation with Editor of the Journal “Novaya Koreya” Song Jin-hwa Song Jin-hwa shares his impressions of the results of the 10th KWP CC Plenum, where the nature of the Korean revolution, the development of socialism in North Korea, and the situation in South Korea was discussed.
June 21, 1955	Record of Conversation with Chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak informs Petrov of the expanded KWP CC Presidium meeting, specifically dealing with steps to improve the management of agriculture and issues of Party and state leadership.
April 5, 1955	Record of Conversation with Chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak Illarion Dmitriyevich Pak discusses the conclusion of the 10th KWP CC Plenum, where organizational issues within the Party have been discussed.
March 12, 1955	Resolution of the 1st Meeting of the KWP CC Presidium of 1-2 February 1955 The Korean Worker's Party Central Committee identifies the causes of the shortcomings in grain purchase work and decrees new methods and solutions to overcome these problems.
May 27, 1966	Excerpts from Leonid Brezhnev's May 1966 Speech on Talks with Kim Il Sung Excerpts from Leonid Brezhnev's speech at the CC CPSU Plenum on the morning of May 27, 1966, in which he discusses his visit to North Korea and meetings with Kim Il-Sung, as well as Soviet and North Korea relations with North Vietnam, China, and Japan.