Chapter 50 Volunteers must take good care of the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees of North Korea[1]

(January 19, 1951) The Workers' Party of Korea and the People's Army headed by Comrade Kim Il Sung[2] have made great achievements in the past five years of struggle in Korea. The heroic People's Army has established friendly relations with the Soviet Union, China and other people's countries, and is now waging a heroic struggle against the U.S. aggressor army and Syngman Rhee's [3] bandit army.Therefore, all comrades in the Chinese Volunteer Army in North Korea must earnestly learn from the North Korean comrades and wholeheartedly support the Korean people, the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Korean People's Army, the Workers' Party of Korea, and Comrade Kim Il Sung, the leader of the Korean people.Comrades from China and the DPRK should unite like brothers, share weal and woe, depend on each other through life and death, and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy.Chinese comrades must treat North Korea’s affairs as their own, educate commanders and fighters to love North Korea’s mountains, rivers, plants, and trees, and not to take a single thread from the North Korean people, just like our views and practices in China, This is the political basis of victory.As long as we are able to do this, final victory will surely be won.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is an additional text written by Mao Zedong when he reviewed the report draft of Peng Dehuai, commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers, at the joint meeting of senior cadres of the Chinese and North Korean armies. [2] Kim Il Sung, then Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Prime Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.

[3] Syngman Rhee was then the president of South Korea, that is, South Korea.