The Council of Ministers decided to direct Minister of War Vasilevsky to send 200 Korean students to Manchuria by 5 December 1950, to direct the Minister of State Security to issue those students exit visas using the most simplified procedure, and to direct the Minister of Foreign Trade to calculate the cost of sending the Korean students to Manchuria.

Mao Zedong informs Stalin of China's military and strategic maneuvers in summer 1950 as a result of the Korean War.

Zhou Enlai gives instructions on the mobilization of Korean drivers in the northeast.

Zhou Enlai instructs on logisitical details related to ammunition, aircraft, warehouse and airport locations, and other equipments.

The Chinese attempt to mobilize the ethnic Koreans living in northeast China to return and serve North Korea in the war.

Due to the Korean situation, the Soviet government requests the use of air and railway transport through China, to which the Chinese side agrees.

Telegram to Stalin reporting on the status--operational readiness and losses incurred--of North Korean air forces.

Stalin's affirmative response to Zhou Enlai's request of 16 November for automobiles.

Stalin agrees to train North Korean pilots, but in China, not in the Soviet Union, as Kim Il Sung previously suggested.

Vasilevsky reports on the state of Korean fighter aviation regiments, damaged Soviet regiments in Korea, Korean maintenance crews and transport of battalions and munitions supplies to Korea, allowing Stalin to decide, pending further calculations, whether or not it would be logical to transfer aircraft to Pyongyang.