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October 18, 1951	Cable No. 25025, Mao Zedong to Filippov [Stalin] Mao writes to Stalin regarding an upcoming conference to discuss strategy for an armistice ending the Korean War.
July 5, 1951	Ciphered Telegram No. 21497, Mao Zedong to Filippov [Stalin] Mao sends Stalin the draft text of an agreement to cease military operations in Korea.
July 4, 1953	Telegram from USSR Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov to Soviet Ambassador in Beijing Molotov writes to the Soviet Ambassador in Beijing discussing the Korean War armistice.
October 7, 1950	Ciphered Telegram No. 25348, Roshchin to Filippov [Stalin] Ambassador Roshchin passes a message from Mao to Stalin regarding the Chinese deployment of troops to Korea.
October 1, 1950	Ciphered Telegram No. 75352, Feng Xi [Stalin] to Shtraus [Shtykov] and Mayveyev [Zakharov] Stalin cables his chief political and military representatives in Pyongyang in response to messages relating the increasingly dire situation in Korea as North Korean forces were driven back across the 38th parallel. Stalin demands that they establish defenses along the 38th parallel to prevent further American advance and even go on the offensive by organizing “guerrilla warfare” in the south behind enemy lines.
March 29, 1953	Ciphered Telegram from Kuznetsov and Fedorenko Report that Kim Il Sung agrees that it is time to bring the war to an end, if not through military means than through negotiations.
July 27, 1953	The President of the Republic of Korea (Rhee) to President Eisenhower Rhee thanks Eisenhower for US appropriations for South Korea and congratulates him on the Korean War armistice.
July 7, 1953	National Security Council Report, NSC 157/1, 'US Objective with Respect to Korea Following an Armistice' NSC 157/1 analyzes the situation following the armistice in Korea and the problem of Korea's division in half. The report analyzes the North Korea/Communist, US, and South Korean positions regarding reunification. Although a unified Korea allied militarily with the US is not seen as a possibility, the report concludes that it might still be possible to achieve "a unified, neutralized Korea under a substantially unchanged ROK [South Korea]."
May 23, 1953	Letter by United Nations Commander Mark W. Clark to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Solving the Prisoner of War Issue General Clark relays to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff the terms of the United Nations proposal to repatriate prisoners of war captured during the conflict in Korea. The agreement grants prisoners the right to refuse to be repatriated.
July 10, 1951	Letter from General Ridgeway to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a Ceasefire Negotiations in Korea Report from Ridgway, Commander in Chief of the United Nations forces in Korea on meetings between the UN Command and North Korea to negotiate an armistice in Korea.