(June 29, 1951)
Comrade Kim Il Sung, and for the information of Comrade Peng Dehuai¹²:
Your telegram of June 29 has been received.
I believe that on the one hand, the People’s Army and the Volunteer Army should actively attend to combat operations and not allow the enemy to seize the opportunity to gain advantages. On the other hand, you two should immediately hold a consultation once, to consider the question of peace negotiations, prepare to dispatch appropriate negotiation representatives, and inform me of your considered opinions and the candidates for negotiation representatives. As for the question of how to respond should Ridgway³ propose a request for negotiations, the content and wording of the reply can be considered and decided upon when Ridgway makes the request.
I am hereby sending you the main points of the conversation between Comrade Gromyko⁴ and the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kirk, for your study.
Mao Zedong
June 29
[1]
This is a telegram from Mao Zedong to Kim Il Sung, Premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
[2]
Peng Dehuai, then Commander and Political Commissar of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army.
[3]
Ridgway, then Commander-in-Chief of the “United Nations Command” and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Far East Command.
[4]
Gromyko, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.

In June 1951, Mao Zedong met in Beijing with Kim Il Sung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party and Premier of the Cabinet.