Telegram to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
August 25, 1953
Comrade Kim Il Sung, Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea:
I hereby wish to express my heartfelt thanks for the congratulations extended to me on the occasion of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the
Chinese People’s liberation Army by the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the entire Korean people and you. The Chinese people
will... (intently) goodwill and solidarity with the brotherly Korean people, and
will jointly fight to the last for the peaceful settlement of the Korean issue and
for lasting peace in the Far East and of the world.