North–South Negotiations
Opposing a separate election in the south, Kim Gu and Kim Gyu-sik met northern leaders in Pyongyang, without result.
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In November 1947 the UN General Assembly called for elections across Korea in proportion to population and sent a Temporary Commission on Korea. When the Soviets refused it entry to the north, the UN Interim Committee resolved in February 1948 to hold elections only where possible.
Kim Gu opposed a separate government in his appeal "To Thirty Million Compatriots". In April 1948 Kim Gu and Kim Gyu-sik went to Pyongyang for a joint conference of political parties and social organizations of North and South and a leaders’ meeting, which called for no separate elections and the withdrawal of foreign troops. The US and the USSR ignored the resolutions, and separate governments were set up in South and North.