1893-1976
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(372) documents
East Asia
1907- 1964
1883- 1954
1879- 1953
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1912- 1994
1909- 1989
1893- 1976
May 30, 1950
Terenti Shtykov reports on Kim Il Sung's military planning for an invasion of South Korea and signals Soviet approval for the invasion.
May 6, 1950
Ignatyev discusses the partisan movement in the rural areas of South Korea.
April 1950
Kim Il Sung and Stalin discuss the North Korean economy and Soviet-North Korean cooperation.
May 16, 1950
Stalin notifies Mao Zedong that he believes the signing of a treaty pact between China and North Korea should only come after Korean reunification.
May 14, 1950
Soviet Ambassador to China N.V. Roschin relays a Chinese assessment of the armed forces in North Korea and South Korea and the possibility of China and North Korea signing a treaty of friendship, alliance, and mutual aid.
October 26, 1949
Stalin agrees with Mao Zedong that North Korea is not yet ready to launch an assault, and reports that the Soviet Union has told North Korea to concentrate on developing liberated areas and guerrillas in South Korea.
May 18, 1949
A telegram from the leader of the group of Soviet specialists in Northeast China to the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers about the results of Chinese-Korean talks on military cooperation.
January 11, 1950
To the question of whether to send back the ethnic Korean officers back to Korea, the Central Military Commission answers in the affirmative and writes that CMC has already asked for Korean officers to come to China to reorganize the troops and bring them back home.
January 22, 1950
Liu Shaoqi reports to Mao Zedong that the ethnic Korean officers have arrived to bring back the ethnic Koreans to Korea. To the request of the North Korean officers in bringing back the weapons ethnic Korean officers had used, Mao responds in the affirmative.
December 29, 1949
Lin Biao and others ask for instructions on whether to send ethnic Korean officers and soldiers to North Korea.
