North Korea requests train locomotives and air force pilots from China, to which China agrees to the train locomotives.
July 18, 1950
Telegram from the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee to Gao Gang
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Comrade Gao Gang:
[Concerning] personnel of Korean nationality currently in the northeast: besides mobilizing doctors, nurses and military personnel, all other technical personnel, such as drivers, factory and mine engineers, etc., are urgently needed in North Korea today. Please mobilize them to return to and serve their country. Inform [us] whether or not you can do this.
[Chinese Communist] Party Central Committee
July 18
The Chinese attempt to mobilize the ethnic Koreans living in northeast China to return and serve North Korea in the war.
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Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi (CPC Central Historical Documents Research Office) and Zhongyang dang'anguan (Central Archives), eds., Jianguo yilai Zhou Enlai wengao (Zhou Enlai’s Manuscripts since the Founding of the PRC), vol. 3 (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 2008), 60. Translated by Jingxia Yang and Douglas Stiffler.
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