RÃZBOIUL DIN COREEA, DIN PERSPECTIVA RELAÞIILOR SINO-SOVIETICE ANA-MARIA IANCU * Abstract. As several Soviet secret documents declassified in the 1990s show, the Korean War revealed the existence of tensions and discontent within the seemingly monolithic communist camp. The relationship betweenMoscowandthenewChinesecommunistpowerinthecontextof the Korean War was complicated, marked from the beginning by power games, mistrust and suspicion, which intensified over time, leading after some years to what was later known as the Sino-Soviet split. Kim Ir-sen, a seemingly unimportant international actor, took advantage of these tensionsinordertotrytoachievehismaingoal,theunificationofKorea under his control. The Korean War was defined by many upheavals and unforeseen decisions which took by surprise both camps, such as the US involvement in the conflict and, later, the even more surprising Chinese military intervention. Despite having hesitantly decided to enter the conflict, decision finaly took partly due to Soviet pressure, and despite its importantwarcasualties,Chinacameoutofthewarstrongeronthelong run. As a result of the Korean War, it was able to impose itself on the internationalsceneasaformidableopponent,worthyoftherespectofthe greatestnuclearpowerofthetime,andtolaythefoundationsforitsfuture independence from the Soviet Union. Keywords: the Korean War; Sino-Soviet relations; USA; Stalin; Mao Zedong; Kim Ir-sen; Preliminariile Rãzboiului din Coreea În 1945, în urma înfrângerii Japoniei în cel de-al Doilea Rãzboi Mondial ºi a eliberãrii de cãtre armatele aliate a teritoriului Peninsulei Coreene, aceasta din urmã a fost împãrþitã în douã, în funcþie de punctul pânã la care avansaserã cele douã armate de ocupaþie, sovieticã, respectiv americanã 1 . Graniþa dintre cele douã statecoreene,RepublicaPopularãDemocratãCoreea(CoreeadeNord),condusã de Kim Ir-sen/ Kim Il-sung – impus ºi susþinut de cãtre URSS, care conducea de facto Coreea de Nord aflatã sub tutelã sovieticã – cu capitala la Phenian, ºi Rev. ªt. Pol. Rel. Int., XIX, 2, pp. 73–88, Bucureºti, 2022. ———————— * CS dr., Institutul de ªtiinþe Politice ºi Relaþii Internaþionale „Ion I. C. Brãtianu“, Bucureºti, România. 1 Henry Kissinger, DespreChina, ediþia a doua, Ed. COMUNICARE.RO, Bucureºti, 2018, p. 131.