To Li Kenong[1]
(July 14, 1951)
Kenong, and also Kim and Peng:[2]
Your telegram of 2:30 a.m., July 14, has been received. There is no need to issue the communiqué on the journalists issue again, because the main content has already been made public,[3] and issuing this communiqué again would be redundant.

Mao Zedong
11:00 a.m., July 14

[1] Li Kenong, then 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, *Renmin Ribao* (People's Daily), under the headline "Adhering to the Principle of Mutual Agreement and Proposing to Continue the Meeting—General Nam Il Replies in a Letter to the U.S. Representative," published a Xinhua News Agency dispatch of the 13th from Pyongyang, which discussed the basic attitude of the Korean-Chinese side on the issue of journalists.