下面这段与中文内容对应 Kim Il-sung kept asking for Stalin and Mao Zedong's approval to use force to take South Korea. But at first both demurred Kim's plan, as the Soviet Union didn't want to aggravate tensions with the US, and China was concentrating on its own reunification. We can find evidence for this in the disclosed archive materials from former Soviet Union and China. But in late January 1950, Stalin suddenly changed his mind and agreed to Kim's plan to undertake military operations against South Korea. He also called Kim to Moscow for secret talks. In the April talks, Stalin gave final approval to Kim's plan to start the war. Stalin agreed to Kim's estimate that the US would decline to or not have enough time to intervene in the war. But during the talks, Stalin repeatedly emphasized that Mao's opinion on the plan must be solicited and the war could not be carried out without the CPC's agreement because Mao had a very deep understanding of issues in the East, and in case of US intervention, the Soviet Union would not come forward to assist North Korea, so Kim could only turn to China for assistance. On May 13, 1950, Kim went to Beijing to solicit Mao's opinion. Mao was suspicious of the claim that Moscow had already approved North Korea's plan, so he requested the Soviet ambassador Nikolai Roshchin to confirm it with Stalin. Stalin answered that he had approved Kim's plan, but if China did not agree, they should discuss the issue again and the final decision should be made by the Chinese and North Koreans themselves. Thus Mao had no choice but to agree to the common position of Moscow and Pyongyang, and said that if the US entered the war, China would send its own armies to assist North Korea, and armies could be transferred to the China-Korea border right away. Based on the above materials, the launching of the Korean War was originally Moscow's and Pyongyang's idea, but Stalin managed to foist responsibility on Mao
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