Answering Telegram to the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Korean Democratic Republic Kim Ir Sen

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic and economic relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Korean People’s Democratic Republic

October 20, 1951

Comrade Chairman, in the name of the government of the Soviet Union and myself, please accept our thanks for your greetings and good wishes on the occasion of the third anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries.

I wish the brave Korean people success in their heroic struggle for the freedom and independence of their homeland.

J. Stalin

("Daily Review," Vol. 2, No. 246, 21 October, 1951)