Please immediately send someone to Andong to meet and escort
Peng Dehuai to his meeting with Kim Il Sung [I]
(15 October 1950)

Comrade Ambassador Ni to Comrade Kim Il Sung:

Please immediately send a comrade familiar with the roads to Andong on 16 October to meet Comrade Peng Dehuai [3] and escort him to his meeting with Comrade Kim Il Sung. If Ambassador Ni cannot locate Comrade Kim Il Sung, then Ambassador Ni is requested to send someone to Andong for the escort.

Zhou Enlai
01:00, 15 October

[1]
This is a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong in the name of Zhou Enlai to Ni Zhiliang, Chinese Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to be forwarded to Kim Il Sung, Premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

[2]
Andong, present-day Dandong, Liaoning.

[3]
Peng Dehuai, then serving as Commander and Political Commissar of the Chinese People’s Volunteers.