(August 12, 1953)
Comrade Kim Tu-bong,
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:

On the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the liberation of Korea, please accept my heartfelt congratulations to the entire Korean people and to you.

I wish the heroic Korean people, who have defeated the aggressors of American imperialism, great success in their cause of striving to prevent the resurgence of aggressive war and to build a peaceful, unified, and independent new Korea.

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China
Beijing, August 12, 1953