...have cemented a great friendship and militant unity. This friendship and unity are founded on the principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and constitute a reliable guarantee for defeating the common enemy. The Chinese people firmly support the Korean people in their just struggle against U.S. imperialism, Japanese militarism and their lackeys and for the independent and peaceful reunification of their fatherland.

We wholeheartedly wish you, leading the Korean Workers' Party and the Korean people, new and still greater achievements in the revolutionary cause in the days to come.

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of China

Zhou Enlai
Premier of the State Council of
the People's Republic of China

April 14, 1972