Cable, Hao Deqing to the Foreign Ministry and the Central Committee, 'On Kosygin's Visit to North Korea'

Cable Received by Central Committee

(65) No. 447

(Extra Urgent)

On Kosygin’s Visit to North Korea

—Comrade Hao Deqing’s Report of 10 February [1965]

[To] The Foreign Ministry and the Central Committee:

This afternoon (the 10th [of February 1965]) at 4:00 p.m., I called upon Comrade Pak Geum-cheol [Pak Kum Chol]. I first orally transmitted the contents of the document before personally handing the document to Pak. Pak expressed his thanks for the important contents of this bulletin. [He] also said that he would immediately transmit it to the leadership. When I saw that Pak wasn’t saying anything, [I] asked whether, as [I] had heard, [Aleksey] Kosygin was going to come to [North] Korea. Pak said, “Not long ago, when [Leonid] Brezhnev met the [North] Korean Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he said that he hoped that the leaders of the two countries could meet. This time they again put forth a visit to [North] Korea. They want to come, and we expressed agreement.” [Pak] also said that “the visit has been confirmed, but the timing? Who would come? For how long? They said after they arrive in China they will notify [us]. But so far [they] have not notified [us].”

Hao Deqing

10 February 1965