After the North Korean government was set up in September 1948, its leaders tried to firmly establish its status by signing a mutual aid agreement with the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet government deemed it undesirable to sign this agreement when the Korean peninsula as a whole was divided into two countries. The Soviet government then decided to establish a proper financial relationship between the two countries. The negotiation between the two countries’ governments was conducted in Moscow in March 1949. The official aim of the negotiation was to expand the economic, cultural, and military exchange between the two countries, but the leaders of the North Korean government used this opportunity to suggest to Stalin the method of a unification of the North and the South by war. Although Stalin provided the Korean government with massive aid in economic, technological, cultural and military aspects, he firmly opposed to the suggested method of a unification by war.
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