Working Paper Series - Alliance  of  “Tooth  and  Lips”  or         Marriage of Convenience? The Origins  and  Development  of  the  Sino‐North   Korean Alliance, 1946‐1958

Specifically, this article will discuss the opening of the Pyongyang office of the Northeast Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party in the summer of 1946, the return of the first group of the ethnic Korean People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers to North Korea, the building of an informal comradeship between China and North Korea, China’s entry into the Korean War, and the materialization of a Sino. [...] Moreover, this article analyzes the constant conflicts between Chinese and North Korean leadership during the Korean War, the changes in the Sino-North Korean relationship after the Korean War, the August Incident of the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP), and the causes and consequences of China’s volunteer withdrawal of the CPVA from North Korea in October 1958. [...] 6 Order in Yan’an, which ordered the KVA to march with the Eighth Route Army to Northeast China to annihilate the Japanese and puppet troops, and to prepare for the liberation of Korea.8 On August 12, 15, and 18, the Korean Independence League issued three proclamations which appealed to the ethnic Korean soldiers among the Japanese army to surrender to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Arm. [...] According to Chen Yun’s report on October 27, the Municipal Committee of Changchun decided to send out a large group of cadres to the area west of Changchun to expand the army, mobilize the masses, and take over the administration.10 At the same time, the advance troops of the KVA arrived in Antong, but the Soviet army stopped them from entering Korea based on the Allies’ agreement regarding the 3. [...] At the beginning of the war, the established principle was military control of the railroad under the command of the CPVA headquarters.