Chapter 68 Military Countermeasures During the Armistice Negotiations

(July 2, 1951) Comrades De Huai, Gao Gang[1], and Comrade Kim Il Sung[2]: During the period of preparing and conducting negotiations with the representatives of the enemy, there will be about ten to fourteen days. Please pay strict and full attention to the following points: (1) Try to strengthen the front-line troops with great efforts within ten days The personnel and especially the replenishment of weapons and ammunition.Comrade Gao Gang is requested to transport personnel, weapons, ammunition, etc. from the rear into North Korea within ten days.It must be prepared that once the armistice agreement is signed, these personnel and materials cannot be transported and mobilized. (2) Vigorously heighten vigilance.Our armies on the front line must be prepared to deal with a possible major attack by the enemy before and during the negotiation period. In the rear, we must carry out large-scale air bombing in order to force us to conclude an alliance under the city.In case of a large-scale attack by the enemy, our army must make a large-scale counterattack to defeat it. (3) Yang Chengwu's [3] two armies and the 50th army must be ordered to move quickly to the designated location to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to land on Yuanshan. Our 38th, 39th and 42nd armies should prepare to deal with the enemy Possible landfall to the west. (4) Please imagine various situations that may occur after the armistice agreement is established, and plan countermeasures in advance.

Mao Zedong At twenty-four o'clock on July 2 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Dehuai, that is, Peng Dehuai, was the commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers at that time.Gao Gang was then the commander and political commissar of the Northeast Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. [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] Yang Chengwu, born in 1914, from Changting, Fujian.At that time, he was the commander of the 20th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers.