Search | Wilson Center Digital Archive

Switch to Visualization

North Korea Korean War Origins, 1945-1950 Clear All

Related Resources

Pyongyang photographed in March 20212

East Asia

North Korea

Photograph of Kim Il Sung in Moscow, March 1949

Korean War Origins, 1945-1950

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Gyeongbokgung

East Asia

South Korea

Kim Il Sung, 1978

Kim, Il Sung

1912- 1994

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich

1883- 1954

A photo of Joseph Stalin from 1943

Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Shtykov, Terentiĭ Fomich

1907- 1964

Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

Portrait of Mao Zedong from propaganda poster

Mao, Zedong

1893- 1976

Soviet Union-North Korea Relations

Koreans displaced during World War II return home

Allied Occupation of Korea, 1945-1948

Chinese troops cross the Yalu River, 1950, to fight in the Korean War.

China and the Korean War

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

1890- 1986

Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

East Asia

Korea

Sino-Soviet Relations

North Korea-China friendship celebrated at the DPRK mass games

China-North Korea Relations

Results:

11 - 20 of 64

Display:

Sort By:

Documents

September 18, 1947	Ciphered Telegram, Molotov to Cde. Stalin Molotov reports his answers to several questions from Vyshinsky: he advises not to be so contentious with Marshall on private questions. On the Korean issues, Vyshinsky should remind the Americans about the terms of the December agreements calling for a united, democratic Korea and that Marshall's new proposals at the UN constitute a violation of these agreements. He approves Vyshinsky's position on the veto and the peace and security committee.
September 12, 1947	Incoming Cable No. 16, Malik to Cde. Stalin Stalin agrees to Malik's proposal regarding the situation in Korea, which calls for the creation of an All-Korean Temporary Assembly to resolve the peninsula's issues. The Soviet representative is to insist to the Americans that such a consultative body be established.
September 22, 1948	Telephone Message via VCh, Kim Il Sung to Generalissimo Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin Kim praises Stalin and the USSR for its role in securing Korean independence and in negotiating with the Americans on the Korean issue
October 23, 1949	Cable Telegram no. 59363 from Kovalev to Stalin, containing a message from Mao Zedong Mao details the actions of the Worker's Party of South Korea, its attempted actions and its repression by state authorities in the last month, and reiterates that he advised against offensive action.
July 12, 1948	Memo of the Directorate for Foreign Relations of the USSR Armed Forces General Staff about the Results of a Conference of Leaders of the Political Parties and Organizations of North and South Korea The statement describes the conference which took place in Pyongyang from June 29 to July 5. The main goal of the conference was to discuss the separate elections held in South Korea and possibilities for the unification of Korea. The North Korean representatives considered the National Assembly formed in South Korea to be illegitimate and urged for the expulsion of foreign powers in order to achieve a unified Korea.
May 15, 1949	Telegram, Shtykov to Vyshinsky Shtykov recounts a recent meeting between Kim Il and Mao Zedong.
July 11, 1948	Record of Conversation between Kim Gu and Liu Yuwan Kim Gu (Kim Koo) and the Chinese Nationalist Minister Liu Yuwan discuss Kim's participation in the South Korean government, his attendance at a conference in Pyongyang, and the possibility of a Russian-led attack on southern Korea.
February 9, 1950	Outgoing Telegram No. 2429, Vyshinsky to Shtykov Vyshinsky relays that all of the things that Kim Il Sung requested are allowed.
October 3, 1949	Cable, Filippov [Stalin] to the Soviet Ambassador, Pyongyang Stalin asks the ambassador to find the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Beijing and tell him that they agree with the DPRK's thinking on the feasibility of establishing diplomatic relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China.
September 15, 1949	Telegram, Shtykov to Stalin A description of the political and economic situation in South and North Korea, and on the presence of the struggling democratic and reactionary forces and their influence among the people. Attached are three appendices on the combat and strength of the South Korean and the People's Army of North Korea, the amount of weapons in the People's Army, and the amount of ammunition in the People's Army as of August 1, 1949.