China asked three representatives from DPRK to prepare to receive the ethnic Korean troops.
January 28, 1950
The Military Commission Agrees to Allow the 4th Field Army's Ethnic Korean Officers and Soldiers Repatriate to Korea
Comrade Lin Biao:
Kim Il Sung has dispatched personnel to come to Wuhan and receive the Korean troops. They have requested to take with them the full set of weaponry. Chairman Mao [Zedong] just indicated he agreed to them taking back a full set of weaponry. I hope it will be handled as best as possible.
Liu Shaoqi
January 28 [1950]
Kim Il Sung will receive the ethnic Korean troops from Wuhan, China.
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Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiu shi and Zhongyang dang'anguan, eds., Jianguo yilai Liu Shaoqi Wengao (Liu Shaoqi's Manuscripts since the Founding of the PRC), vol. 1 (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 2005), 320. Translated by Kim Donggil.
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