Mao details the actions of the Worker's Party of South Korea, its attempted actions and its repression by state authorities in the last month, and reiterates that he advised against offensive action.
October 26, 1949
Draft Reply to Mao Zedong's Telegram from Stalin via Molotov
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ТЕЛЕГРАММА Сталина Мао Цзэдуну.
Проект МОЛОТОВА ОТ 26.1949 г.
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Представляю проект ответа на телеграмму тов.Мао Цзэдуна на имя тов.Филиппова по вопросу о Корее (см.Телеграмму тов.Ковалева N 234 )
В.Молотов
26 октября 1949 г.
КОВАЛЕВУ, РОЩИНУ
Передайте Мао Цзэдуну следующий ответ Филиппова на его телеграмму от 21 октября :
“Тов. Мао Цзэдуну.
Мы согласны с Вашим мнением, что в настоящее время Корейской Армии пока не следует вести наступления.В свое время мы тоже укахзывали корейским друзьям на то, что намечавшееся ими наступление Корейской Народной Армии на юг не должно быть предпринято, так как это наступление не подготовлено пока ни с военной, ни с политической стороны.
По нашему мнению, в настоящее время корейским друзьям следует в борьбе за объединение Кореи сосредоточить свои силы на развертывании партизанского движения, создании освобожденных районов в Южной Кореи и на всемерном укреплении Народной Армии Кореи.
ФИЛИППОВ.
Исполнение телеграфьте
Громыко
Архив Президента Российской Федерации, Фонд N 45, Опись N 1,Дело 332,Лист N 47-48
Telegram from Stalin to Mao Zedong
Molotov's draft of 26 [October] 1949
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I submit a draft reply to Cde. Mao Zedong's telegram addressed to Cde. Filippov [Stalin] on the issue of Korea (see Cde. Kovalev's telegram N 234)
V. Molotov
26 October 1949
to KOVALEV and ROSHCHIN
Pass the following reply to Mao Zedong in response to his telegram of 21 October:
"To Cde. Mao Zedong.
We agree with your opinion that the Korean Army ought not to pursue an attack at the present time. At one time we also pointed out to the Korean friends that the attack on the south by the Korean People's Army that they had planned should not be undertaken since this attack had not been prepared from either a military or a political standpoint.
In our opinion at the present time the Korean comrades ought to concentrate their efforts in the struggle for the unification of Korea on developing a partisan movement, creating liberated areas in South Korea, and a comprehensive strengthening of the People's Army of Korea.
FILIPPOV["]
Report by telegraph when this is done.
Gromyko
Stalin agrees with Mao Zedong that North Korea is not yet ready to launch an assault, and reports that the Soviet Union has told North Korea to concentrate on developing liberated areas and guerrillas in South Korea.
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APRF, F. 45, Op. 1, D. 332, ll. 47-48, and RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 333, ll.0046-0048. Translated by Gary Goldberg.
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