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conversations.value: a description for a book titled The Korean War about Korean, War with the genre: History, Asia
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conversations.value: Any serious student of the Korean War will want to read this book for its measured perspectives and concern to contextualize its subject.
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conversations.value: The Korean War
  Memorandum, Pushkin, October 30, 1952, APRF, f. 3, op. 65, d. 830, 33–34. Decision, Presidium Bureau, Central Committee, CPSU, November 3, 1952, Ibid., 31–32. There is also a Tass announcement.
  Razuvaev to Sokolovskii, Kim Il Sung's letter to Stalin is attached, January 3, 1953, APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 348, 83–87.
  Joseph Stalin's stroke was announced first in the Soviet Union on March 4, 1953, at 6:20. It was 0:20 Korean time. In North Korea the news also became known in the morning of March 4. His death two days later must have shocked Kim Il Sung. At a memorial in Pyongyang, eulogies to Stalin were given by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Tu-bong, Chief of the Propaganda section of the KWP Pak Chang-ok, Deputy Prime Minister Hong Myong-hui, and Defense Minister Choe Yong-gon.[1] Foreign Minister Pak Hon-yong joined the ceremony, but did not speak. Apparently he was arrested shortly afterwards. His arrest was part of Kim Il Sung's agenda to end the fighting in Korea, which Pak sought to continue.
  Zhou Enlai was sent to Moscow to attend Stalin's funeral and was in the Soviet Union from March 8 to 17. During the funeral ceremony in Red Square, Zhou heard Stalin's successor as Soviet premier, Georgii Malenkov, call for the relaxation of international tensions and peaceful coexistence. Two days later, Zhou met with the new Soviet leadership: Malenkov, Vice-Premier Lavrentii Beria, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Commerce Minister Anastas Mikoyan, and Vice-Foreign Minister Vasilii Kuznetsov.[2] The war in Korea was probably the main topic, and the collective Kremlin leadership must have urged Zhou to end it quickly. But the conventional view that Stalin's death precipitated an armistice is mistaken. Stalin had already been moving toward a ceasefire, though he did not force that course of action on China or North Korea.
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conversations.value: On July 28, 110,000 people gathered in Pyongyang's central square for a speech by Kim Il Sung. Standing amid a wasteland of burned-out buildings, North Koreans were relieved at the end of US bombing. Soviet Ambassador to North Korea S. P. Suzdalev had reported Kim's draft speech to Moscow on July 19.[123] The Korean people had crushed the plan of the American imperialists to turn all of Korea into a colony and a military base against the Soviet Union and China, Kim declared; the armistice was the result of their heroic three-year struggle to defend the freedom and independence of the fatherland. The nation and people had won a historic victory. Kim Il Sung was flanked on the podium by Kim Tu-bong, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly; three KWP secretaries—Pak Chong-ae, Pak Chang-ok, and Kim Il; and four vice-premiers—Choe Yong-gon, Chong Il-yong, Pak Ui-wan, and Choe Chang-ik. Missing were Pak Hon-yong, Yi Sung-yop, Ho Ka-i, and Pak Il-u.
  After noting the spiritual support and economic aid from fraternal countries in the socialist camp led by the great Soviet Union, Kim Il Sung paid special tribute to China for sending the Chinese People's Volunteers to the front line in Korea at the most difficult time in the DPRK's war to liberate the fatherland.
  The guns were silent, but a complete victory had not been won, Kim Il Sung also cautioned. The American imperialists had not been driven from the fatherland and were planning to use Japan in their aggressive wars in Asia. Planes from US bases in Japan had turned peaceful Pyongyang and farming villages across the North into charred ashes, Kim said. The United States had fought the war from depots and rear area bases in Japan.
  While shrilly threatening to attack the North, the Rhee administration had begun negotiations with Japan to normalize diplomatic relations, Kim continued. He warned that a US-ROK mutual security treaty would increase the danger of another war. North Korea must strengthen the KPA's war-fighting power, improve "revolutionary vigilance," and rebuild the economy, he said. Not a single spy or saboteur could be allowed to operate in the republic. The "completion of national territory" was now linked to "peaceful unification of the fatherland." Kim did not mention unification by military force. The people's patriotic duty during the armistice was to develop the national economy and make the DPRK a stronger democratic base, he exhorted the crowd.[124] Kim's speech was broadcast nationwide and followed by an artillery salute and a parade of 110,000 citizens that lasted several hours. North Koreans were openly joyful at peace.[125]
  The day before the armistice was signed, UN Commander Clark asked Rhee to reassure the nonrepatriate North Korean prisoners of war that they would not be forced to return to the North. At first Rhee said that he intended to make a public announcement that his administration would "cooperate with the armistice."[127] However, South Korean press reports on July 29 headlined the president's strident determination to "Accomplish Unification" and his appeal to North Koreans not to despair. Rhee said he had opposed the armistice from a conviction that it would bring greater suffering and destruction and be the prelude to another Communist attack. Now that an armistice had been signed, Rhee said he hoped his assessment was wrong. To achieve the liberation of northern Korea and national unification peacefully the South would not obstruct a political conference, he said. The United States and the Republic of Korea were in accord on effective cooperation and assistance. Rhee urged North Koreans not to abandon hope and promised not to forget their plight. The Republic of Korea remained determined to rescue the North and the United Nations had promised to help, he stated.[128]
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