1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
1893- 1976
East Asia
1883- 1954
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1879- 1953
1912- 1994
October 1950
Mao instructs soldiers in the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to support Kim Il Sung and abide by North Korean policies while they help defend the North Korean people from the United States.
September 2, 1952
Zhou Enlai and Peng Dehuai try to persuade Kim Il Sung to fight until the United States proposes negotiations.
July 8, 1950
Telegram from Stalin to Beijing advising that they send a representative to Korea.
April 20, 1956
Excerpt of telegram from P. Yudin, Soviet Ambassador to the PRC, reporting to Moscow on a conversation he had with Mao Zedong. Mao allegedly stated that there had been miscalculations prior to the commencement of the Korean War that international actors would not intervene on behalf of South Korea.