The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the Supreme Leader and the Government of North Korea.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Pyongyang.

[1] The post of Russian Ambassador to North Korea is currently held by Aleksandr Matsegora, incumbent since December 26, 2014.

[3] However Korea was deprived of its right to conduct independent foreign policy by the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the eventual successor to the Russian Empire) did not formally recognise the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile.

[4] Relations continue up to the present day, with the Russian Federation as the USSR's successor state.