On March 3, the second day after Kim Yuecheng left, the People's Daily published an editorial entitled "A Call for Peace" on the front page, which pointed out:

The peoples of all countries in the world have realized that peace is of great value to the development of mankind, but now peace is threatened by the Soviet Union, which, as everyone knows, a handful of war maniacs in the Soviet Union, in defiance of the repeated strong opposition of the people of the world, brazenly launched a nuclear attack on China and imposed a nuclear war on the peace-loving people of the world. The people of the whole world, like the Chinese, have expressed great indignation and stern condemnation of this mad act of the Soviet Union.

Facts have once again proved that the harm of nuclear war to mankind is self-evident. It is unpopular to start a nuclear war!

The Chinese people love peace and do not want war, let alone nuclear war. The people of the world, including the Soviet people, are also peace-loving and do not want war, let alone nuclear war. At the same time, the Chinese people are by no means afraid of war, let alone nuclear war.

From the very first day that China possessed nuclear weapons, China solemnly stated to the whole world that China's development of nuclear weapons is solely for the purpose of defense, and that China will use its nuclear armed forces to stop such violations of China's core interests when China's core interests have been seriously infringed upon, and when China's political axe and people's efforts to use peaceful means and the use of conventional armed force cannot stop such violations. If people don't offend me, I don't offend anyone. If anyone sins against me, I will offend this principled position. At the same time, the Chinese people also have the determination and ability to completely remove the Soviet nuclear threat to China and the world. However, in order to avoid the harm of such a nuclear war to the whole world and to ensure that the people of the world can have a peaceful environment free of nuclear pollution, the Chinese people have made great sacrifices and endured humiliation. In response to this despicable nuclear attack of the Soviet Union, an attitude of extreme restraint was adopted.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's political efforts have been made to create a relaxed international environment conducive to concentrating efforts on domestic economic construction.Chinese And has been committed to the cause of world peace. China calls on people around the world to take action to stop the nuclear war unleashed by the Soviet Union. On the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, it is the consistent principle of China's political axe to resolve all the problems facing our world through peaceful negotiations.

China and the Soviet Union are both socialist countries, and the two countries have the longest common border. The Sino-Soviet border issue was originally a problem left over from history, and these problems were caused by the aggressive and expansionist policy of Tsarist Russia, and the Chinese political axe and people have always believed that these problems arose under the circumstances when the peoples of the two countries could not make decisions. It does not represent the will of the greatest number of people in both countries. China's political axe has always advocated that China and the Soviet Union properly handle these historical issues that run counter to the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two countries through friendly consultations, but China's reasonable demand has been arbitrarily rejected by the Soviet authorities on many occasions. The failure of all the peaceful settlements that China has done has led to the deterioration of relations between the two socialist countries to the level of fighting each other, and the outbreak of this Sino-Soviet border armed conflict, in which the Soviet Union first used nuclear weapons and launched a shameful nuclear war against the Chinese people, triggering the most serious nuclear crisis in history

At the end of the editorial, the "People's Daily" made it clear that in order to defuse this most serious nuclear crisis in history, we will avoid a new world war and a nuclear war that can destroy the world. The Chinese political axe believes that China and the Soviet Union should jointly discuss and eliminate the differences between China and the Soviet Union on the border issue with an equal attitude, stop the armed conflict, resume negotiations, and peacefully resolve the border conflict between China and the Soviet Union, which is beneficial to the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations and world peace. Moreover, in order to achieve this, China and the Soviet Union must show sufficient sincerity for peace and shoulder the responsibilities of a responsible major country for the long-term peace and stability of the Chinese and Soviet peoples and for world peace. The Chinese government hopes that China and the Soviet Union will make a breakthrough in easing the situation on the Sino-Soviet border through negotiations. In order to achieve a ceasefire, both sides will retreat 2 kilometres each on the existing fronts and disengage their forces

Through an editorial in the People's Daily, China made an official response to the Soviet Union's proposal for a ceasefire and resumption of negotiations between the two sides. A "call for peace" was issued to the world, to the Soviet Union. Although the Soviet Union felt a little breathless, it was obviously its own peace proposal first, but how could China be the first to issue a "call for peace" to the Soviet Union? In any case, it has lost another trick in guiding international public opinion.

Under Kim Yuecheng's arrangement, the Chinese and Soviet ambassadors to the DPRK held the first round of technical talks on the resumption of talks on the border issue between the two countries and the realization of a ceasefire on all fronts in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on 4 March.

At 9:30 a.m. on 6 March, the Chinese-made "Sky Train" Peace Messenger plane, in which Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was aboard, slowly landed at the airport in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK Myongshuo Republic. Also arriving on the same plane were Vice Foreign Minister Li Dawei, Special Assistant to the Foreign Minister Mao Anying, Secretary of the CPC Committee of China's Baikal Province, and Chiang Ching-kuo, Assistant to the Governor of China's Baikal Province. After greeting each other at the airport, the Chinese delegation, accompanied by Kim Yuecheng, Cui Yongjian, and others, went to Building 1 of the Baekwonka State Guesthouse in the northeastern suburbs of Pyongyang City, surrounded by 10,000 acres of fertile fields, and with green hills stretching in the distance. In front of Building 1 there is a large green area, flowers and fountains. The lake in the garden is like a mirror, and at this time, it is covered with snow. The lake is surrounded by green pines, and the maple trees overlap, which is even more unique.

In the No. 1 building where China lives, each room includes a bedroom of more than 50 square meters, with a ceiling height of more than 10 meters, and the windows are bright and clean, and it is spotless. Winter sunlight shines through large glass windows that are more than 3 meters wide and 2 meters high, making the house warm as spring. The bed is a hand-sewn quilt, the interior closet is about two meters high, and the mahogany carved door looks precious and gorgeous. In the bathroom of more than 20 square meters in each room, there is a triangular surf massage bath and steam shower room imported from China, and all the hardware in the bathroom is 18k gold plating. Outside is a living room nearly 100 meters away. There is a 52-inch flat-screen TV imported from China, and on the background wall of the sofa hangs Chinese paintings of flowers and birds in ink and ink from the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the Bogu shelves in each living room are blue and white porcelain from official kilns in China's Wanli period, and on the wall of the living room hang pictures of Jin Yuecheng talking and laughing with Chairman Mao ZD and Zhou Enlai very affectionately, showing the extraordinary relationship between them. Whether it's in the bedroom, bathroom. Or in the living room, there are bouquets of flowers in vases, which add a bit of life to the room.

In addition, in the fruit blue of the food shelf in the room, there are fresh fruits, exquisite tea boxes containing oolong tea and Pur tea, Korean ginseng tea, and two bags of wet towels in sealed packaging.

Jin Yuecheng's day is destined to be the busiest day. The bosses of the two socialist camps came to North Korea at about the same time. The Chinese guests were sent to the hotel, leaving Cui Yongjian to accompany the Chinese guests. Then he returned to the airport in the "Blue Sky" 300 high-grade bulletproof sedan given to him by China. Go to meet the Soviet negotiating delegation.

At 11:30 a.m., the Il-18Д plane in which Mikoyan, the new Soviet minister of foreign affairs, was traveling in the Il-18Д plane, landed at Pyongyang airport. Also arriving on the same plane were Andropov, former Soviet ambassador to China, and later promoted to first deputy foreign minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kuznetsov. First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR Kosygin.

Soon the Soviet delegation headed by Mikoyan was also brought to the Hundred Gardens State Guesthouse, which had only two villa-style buildings, and the Soviet delegation was placed in Building No. 2. Buildings 1 and 2 are about 200 meters apart. Jin Yuecheng also knows that this arrangement is a bit inappropriate, but this is the best state guesthouse in North Korea at present, and it is too late to redecorate another one. After soliciting the opinions of both China and the Soviet Union, both China and the Soviet Union felt that it did not matter, that it was important to talk about things, and that they should not add trouble to this little brother.

At 20 o'clock in the evening, in the azalea hall on the west side of the hundred gardens, the negotiators of the two countries met, and the representatives of the two sides played very well, and the demeanor of diplomats was fully brought into play, still shaking hands tightly, comrades were commensurate, and greeting each other.

Then the two sides took their seats, and began a long frank and sincere meeting that tried to turn around relations between China and the Soviet Union.

Soviet Foreign Minister Mikoyan spoke first, expressing deep condolences for the victims of the Chinese side who died in the nuclear attack, and repeatedly claiming that the nuclear attack was entirely the personal act of some people in the Soviet army with ulterior motives. Nothing to do with the Soviet political axe. The Soviet Union hoped that the Chinese side would hand over the perpetrators of this incident to the Soviet political axe, so that the Soviet political axe could find out the truth and severely punish the perpetrators and instigators of the nuclear attack. He also introduced to the Chinese side that the Soviet Party and the political axe had arrested the party, government, and military leaders who were responsible for the leadership of the nuclear attack, and assured China that they would be prosecuted by the Supreme People's Court of the Soviet Union for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Mikoyan declared, "The war between the two great socialist powers of China and the Soviet Union is undesirable and does not serve the interests of the peoples of the Soviet Union and China, and does not take advantage of the entire socialist camp and the entire international [***] cause." The territory of the Soviet Union is already large enough, more than 20 million square kilometers, and the population is less than 200 million, which is enough for us to develop. The current leaders of the party and state of the Soviet Union are absolutely unwilling to fight a war over the territorial issue and for China, which is also a socialist country. He strongly condemned the border war that China first launched.

Later, Mikoyan said: "The overwhelming majority of the leaders of the Soviet Party and the political axe of the Soviet Union now hope to work hard to develop friendly relations with China and constantly push forward these friendly relations. Because our two peoples have always been very friendly, our two countries should not be enemies of each other. We hope that the party and political axes of our two countries will proceed from the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two countries and the overall situation of the [***] movement, stop the war between us, and resume negotiations between China and the Soviet Union. The border issues left over from history should be properly handled through friendly consultations.

After listening to Mikoyan's speech, Zhou Enlai made an impassioned speech, and he made China's position very serious: I agree with Comrade Mikoyan's proposal that we, the two parties and the two countries, and the political axe of the two countries, proceed from the fundamental interests of the two peoples of the two countries and the overall situation of the [***] movement, stop the war between us, and resume negotiations between China and the Soviet Union. This idea of the border issue, which has been left over from history, should be properly handled through friendly consultations.

Indeed, war between China and the Soviet Union is undesirable, and a nuclear war in particular runs counter to the will of the Chinese and Soviet peoples and the wishes of all peace-loving people in the world. This war between China and the Soviet Union also affected the stability of the entire socialist camp. It has greatly hurt the entire international [***] cause.

So why is there such a room-fighting war? I believe that the root cause of this is the result of the aggressive and expansionist policy of Tsarist Russia and the great-power chauvinism of Comrade Stalin.

Tsarist Russia was originally a European country, and the political axe of Tsarist Russia occupied a large area of Asian territory through extremely disgraceful means, forming a connection with China's territory. China and the Soviet Union are both socialist countries and share a long common border. There are a number of historical legacies in these borders. The Chinese political axe and people have always held that the vast majority of these disputed territorial issues arose under the circumstances when neither the Chinese and Soviet peoples could make their own decisions. We were very naïve to believe that China and the Soviet Union are now both socialist countries and share the same belief in Marxism-Leninism. When the people of both countries have won the national victory and established the proletarian regime, the people are the masters of the country and become the real masters of the country. It is not difficult for the Chinese and Soviet peoples to properly handle these historical problems that run counter to the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two countries left over from our common enemy, the political axe of Tsarist Russia and the feudal Manchu dynasty, through comradely friendly consultations. In order to accommodate the feelings of the Soviet people, we even offered to recover some of the territories previously occupied by Tsarist Russia by way of ransom, so that we could account for them to our people. However, these reasonable propositions of ours have been rejected many times by your Soviet political axe.

The territorial issue is a major issue that has a bearing on China's territorial sovereignty integrity and the dignity of the Chinese nation, and is where China's core interests lie. This is a fundamental issue affecting Sino-Soviet relations at present.

(To be continued)