Report by Qiao Xiaoguang on a Conversation with Kim Il Sung

[To] All Provincial, Municipal, and Autonomous Region Party Committees, Party Organizations of Government Offices and People’s Associations, the [People’s Liberation Army] General Political Department, and the Communist Youth League Central Committee:

I am sending you a copy of the telegram by Qiao Xiaoguang, [Chinese] Ambassador to [North] Korea, for your reading.

Central Committee

25 September 1959

Report on a Conversation with Kim Il Sung

[To the] International Liaison Department of the Central Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

Today, Comrade Kim Il Sung told me that after he arrives in Beijing, he would like to meet with Chairman Mao [Zedong] and Chairman Liu [Shaoqi] to discuss [North] Korea’s economic development over the past year. He expressed that he fully supports the resolutions of the Eighth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee, [as well as] China’s Great Leap Forward, the People’s Communes, our general [political] line, and our opposition to Peng Dehuai’s right opportunist anti-Party clique. Kim said that the Korean [Workers’] Party is not surprised by Peng Dehuai’s opposition to the [Chinese Communist] Party and that this is [in fact] completely understandable. The Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party had quite a few concerns about Peng Dehuai in the past, but did not raise these [questions about Peng to the Chinese Communist Party] out of a broader interest in protecting the unity of the two [Chinese and Korean] parties. During the trip to Beijing, [Kim said that] [Mao and Liu] might find an opportunity to discuss this issue with our Party.

Qiao Xiaoguang

21 September 1959