Decision to adopt the proposal made by the Minister of Foreign Trade and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to defer the DPRK's loan payments represented in the Agreement of 14 November 1951.

Decision to approve the draft TASS publication denying the reported talks between the Soviet Union and the United States on the Korean issue.

Stalin agrees with Mao's position on repatriation and says Kim Il Sung agrees as well.

Dispatches around 8:00 on October 20 reported that three Korean boats, a big hunter (trapper), a torpedo boat, and a patrol boat crossed the Soviet border with Korea and requested permission to take refuge in the bay.

Account of the reception of the Chinese Ambassador Peng Dehuai. He requested that all Korean undergrad and graduate students be admitted to the Soviet summer schools, as well as Korean specialists who receive production and technical training in industrial settings the USSR (a total of 738 people). Gromyko notes that there are differences between the requests of Dehuai and Kim Il Sung, and that Dehuai has been asked to speak to Kim Il Sung, and clear up the differences.