An entry from the diary of Soviet Ambassador Moskovsky in which he comments that the North Koreans have started avoided talking about substantive matters with him.
September 26, 1963
From the Diary of Soviet Ambassador to North Korea Vasily Moskovsky
26 September 1963
[…] Analyzing the development of events I again and again arrive at the conclusion that if [the former Soviet Ambassador A. Puzanov] had listened to subordinates more attentively, and not just to Kim Il Sung, it might have been possible to decipher as early as 1961 where the Koreans are looking – to the East or to the West. […]
An entry from the diiary of Soviet Ambassador Moskovsky in which he criticizes his predecessor, Ambassador Puzanov, for relying too much on the advice of Kim Il Sung.
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AVPRF, fond 0102, opis 19, papka 97, delo 5, list 159. Obtained and translated for NKIDP by Sergey Radchenko.
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