On October 8, 1950, China received a request for help from the North Korean government. On October 19, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River marchingly and entered North Korea. Six days later, the first battle to enter North Korea was launched.
Volunteer Army entered North Korea for more than seven months, five battles were held, and the prestige of the country was fought and the US military was driven back to the 38th parallel area from near the Yalu River.
On June 30, 1951, Li Qiwei issued a statement on this, expressing his willingness to hold an armistice negotiation and proposed to be held on the Danish wounded ship at Yuanshan Port . Finally, after negotiation, it was decided to hold an armistice negotiation in Kaicheng .
At this time, Mao Zedong personally called Li Kenong and said solemnly: "Kenong, this time I will call your general and ask you to go to Kaicheng to take charge."
In this way, Li Kenong went to Kaicheng to be responsible for the presidency of the Sino-Korea negotiating delegation.
North Korea's armistice negotiations were extremely difficult. A total of 58 negotiating delegation meetings were held. The negotiation time lasted for two years. The negotiation venue was changed twice, and several negotiations were directly interrupted.
On July 10, 1951, the North Korean armistice negotiations were held in Kaesong for the first time. China and North Korea proposed that all foreign troops in North Korea must withdraw from North Korea, but were strongly opposed by the United States.
in the negotiations, so the US began to act recklessly, and even fired shells at the residence of the Chinese and North Korean delegation. At the same time, it launched an offensive on the front battlefield, attempting to put heavy pressure on China and North Korea so that it could relax in the negotiations, which also interrupted the negotiations for 63 days.
Chairman Mao had long given instructions: "Want the fight is determined, and the negotiations must be patient."
Therefore, the US military's approach cannot put pressure on the Chinese and North Korean negotiating delegation at all. The volunteers resolutely counterattacked, pursuing the US military's offensive and knocking the US military back to the negotiating table.
On October 25, 1951, the North Korean armistice negotiations were officially resumed, but the negotiation site was changed to Banmen Store .
The US representative who was beaten back to the negotiating table this time was a little weaker, and the Chinese and North Korean representatives also occupied the initiative and reached an agreement in one month.
Although the negotiations reached an agreement, Korean War is still fighting, and the armistice negotiations still need to continue.
On December 28 of the same year, the armistice negotiations were held again in Panmunjom. This time, the main negotiations were on the airport and the exchange of prisoners of war, and it was also the most difficult negotiation in more than two years.
, especially in the issue of exchanging prisoners of war, both sides refused to retreat, which caused the negotiations to fall into a deadlock.
In the face of China and North Korea's request, the US representative actually began to remain silent and stared at the Chinese and North Korea representative without saying a word, which made the scene very heavy. This is the method that the US negotiations have always used to delay time with silence.
The US's procrastination method has indeed produced an effect, making the Chinese and North Korean representatives restless and do not know what to do.
The Chinese and North Korean representatives who could not withstand the pressure suddenly sent someone to leave the negotiation hall and rushed to a tent in Panmunjom.
This is not the first time that the Chinese and North Korean negotiators have run into this tent midway through the negotiations, as if there are secret weapons hidden in the tent.
There is always a silent person sitting in this tent, smoking a cigarette. This person is Li Kenong. In fact, before Li Kenong entered the country, he suffered from severe asthma , and even had to rely on morphine to sleep.
Li Kenong learned from the negotiator that the whole story was in and out of the matter.
Li Kenong slowly took out a small note, wrote three words on it: "Sit down", and handed it to the negotiator who came to report the situation.
Li Kenong didn't say a word during the whole process, which made the negotiator member confused and became even more anxious. He wanted to say something but didn't know what to say. But when the negotiator saw the words on the paper, he immediately understood and ran back to the negotiation hall happily.
After the negotiator member sat back on the negotiating table, he calmed down a lot and passed the papers to the members to check.
After reading the paper, the Sino-North Korea negotiating delegation immediately stood upright, looking straight at the US representative calmly.
The US delegation was puzzled. Why did the Chinese and North Korean representatives who were anxious just now suddenly calm and began to look at them without saying a word?
US representatives could not think of any good countermeasures for a while, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to remain silent.
In this way, the two sides had a high-intensity look at each other, which was a very test of a person's spirit and perseverance. The Chinese and North Korean representatives strictly followed Li Kenong's instructions and stopped speaking actively, and kept sitting down.
In the end, the US representative could not withstand the pressure and defeated and agreed to exchange prisoners of war on the 38th parallel.
This silent standoff negotiation directly broke the historical record of world negotiations, and the two sides of the negotiations were in a stalemate for 132 minutes. After the negotiations were over, the US quickly used various means to explore what happened during the period when the Chinese representative left the venue during the negotiations.
The US side soon learned that after the Chinese representative left the venue, he just went to a tent near the venue and returned to the negotiation venue. Although the US side knew that the Chinese representative must have received instructions from the people in the tent, it was swearing to confront them silently, but it didn't know who the master in the tent was.
In the following time, Li Kenong stayed in Panmunjom and was responsible for presiding over the work of the Sino-North Korea negotiation team. Because of his hard work day and night, his asthma has become very serious and he fell into a coma several times.
After Mao Zedong learned about it, he immediately expressed his hope that Comrade Li Kenong could return to China for treatment and recuperation. But Li Kenong resolutely refused and said: "It is now at a critical moment of negotiation. We cannot change players at the last minute. I must hold on."
Li Kenong is so important in Panmunjom and is the backbone of the China-North Korea negotiating working group. He can always stabilize everyone's emotions at critical moments and let everyone negotiate in the best state.
Li Kenong’s actions at Panmunjom not only convinced the Chinese and North Korean representatives, but also convinced the US representatives and admired him.
On July 27, 1953, the North Korean armistice negotiations were finally over, and the signing ceremony of the North Korean armistice agreement was held in Panmunjom. At this moment, Li Kenong also completed this arduous task.
In 1955, the Chinese People's Liberation Army implemented the military rank system for the first time, and Li Kenong was awarded the rank of general. Among the 57 founding generals, Li Kenong was the most special because he had never led troops to fight a war.
General Li Kenong made great contributions to the Chinese revolution. His great achievements were very mysterious and wonderful, and he was even known as the "King of Agents".
General Li Kenong was one of the first revolutionary soldiers to work on the hidden front of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission, he was appointed as the Minister of the Intelligence Department of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission, making great contributions and valuable experience to the intelligence work of our army.
1961 On January 6, General Li Kenong's wife Zhao Ying died of illness. He was seriously ill and was heartbroken and reluctant to leave.
After this, General Li Kenong did not allow others to move the things in the room at will, and still maintained the decorations he had when his wife was alive, and would sit by the bed alone for a while every night before falling asleep.
General Li Kenong's love for his wife Zhao Ying was unswerving. He only loved Zhao Ying deeply in his life, one woman. The two of them were in the same boat through thick and thin, and they had been together for 44 years in life and death.
At 21:00 on February 9, 1962, Li Kenong died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital . After the National CIA learned, "we have lost a strong opponent."
