The Hot Diplomatic Summer of 1950: Documents of the Early Period of the Korean War.

The article focuses on historical diplomatic documents from 1950 which provide insights into the foreign relations between the Soviet Union and the United States in respect the the U.S.'s decision to engage in the Korean War. The author considers archival documents found at the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation which include the 1950 speech by Korean leader Kim Il-sung titled "Address to the Entire Korean People" which appeared in the June 26 issue of the Soviet newspaper Pravda, the June 27 letter from the U.S. embassy to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko regarding the United Nations Security Council meeting called to consider military aggression by North Korea, and the July 4 memo informing the Soviet government of the American naval blockade of North Korea.