RELAȚII ROMÂNO–NORD-COREENE ÎNTRE 1948 ȘI 1953
ROMANIAN-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS BETWEEN 1948 AND 1953

Summary/Abstract: The first six years of the Romanian-North Korean relationship are scarcely addressed in the Romanian historiography. The aim of this paper is to partially fill the gap by providing groundwork of factual aspects extracted from Romanian archives. From the October 1948 letter of the North Korean foreign minister which was asking for the establishment of diplomatic relations, through the first Korean (governmental) delegation to set foot in Romania on December 17th, 1949 and which informed about the general geographical and social characteristics of the country and through the experience – unique for the Romanian diplomatic history – of the first Romanian diplomatic mission in the war-torn DPRK (it reached Pyongyang on April 14th, 1951), whose two diplomats, left alone in a derelict cabin, were hiding in the bushes from the strafing of American warplanes, to the hundreds of Korean children and youth hosted and educated in Romania during the Korean war and the reconstruction years of the DPRK we see the opening of a new international horizon for the Romanian nation in the post second world war geopolitical context of the world socialist system.

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