Telegram Regarding the Cessation of Further Dispatch of the Press Communiqué to Li Kenong [1] (July 14, 1951) To Kenong, as well as to Kim and Peng [2]: Your telegram of 2:30 p.m. on July 14 has been received. There is no need to issue any further communiqués on the press question, since the main points have already been made public [3]; to do so would merely be redundant. Mao Zedong, 11:00 a.m. on July 14, printed from the manuscript. Notes [1] Li Kenong was at that time Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central People’s Government. [2] “Kim” refers to Kim Il-sung, Premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “Peng” refers to Peng Dehuai, Commander and Political Commissar of the Chinese People’s Volunteers. [3] On July 14, 1951, the People’s Daily, under the headline “Upholding the Original Terms of the Bilateral Agreement—General Nam Il’s Letter Reply to the U.S. Representative,” published a Xinhua News Agency dispatch from Pyongyang dated the 13th, which set forth the basic position of the Korean–Chinese side on the issue of journalists.