Abstract
The purpose of this study is to compare Soviet aid to North Korea (DPRK) in the 1950s and 1960s with Soviet aid to North Vietnam (DRV) during the same period. With the data collected from various sources, this study compares the aid and identifies the meaning of it from the perspectives of patron-client state relationships. Relatively, more aid was given to North Korea in the mid-1950s and more to North Vietnam in the late- 1960s and both countries were given similar aid in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This was due to the fluctuation in the strategic value of the two countries to the Soviet Union particularly by the confrontations with the US-supported respective southern states and the compliance behavior of the recipient countries.
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