Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis -the DPRK and USSR Contrasted
One anniversary not talked about very much is the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis or Caribbean Crisis . It was on the 22nd of October that the US imperialists announced that their spy satellites had detected long -range missiles being transported into the Republic of Cuba by the Soviet Union. The US imperialist chieftain Kennedy blustered and threatened the Soviet Union and Cuba. A naval blockade was imposed on Cuba and it was threatened with invasion and the USSR was threatened with a nuclear strike .
The USSR under the leadership of the revisionist Khruschov ( a leader whose treachery was only outdone by Gorbachov ) caved into the US in the space of 6 days .the 28th of October 1962 only 6 days Khruschov announced "the Soviet government, in addition to previously issued instructions on the cessation of further work at the building sites for the weapons, has issued a new order on the dismantling of the weapons which you describe as 'offensive' and their crating and return to the Soviet Union."
As comrade KIM JONG IL said at the time “The modern revisionists yielded to the US imperialists ,promising that they would withdraw their missile bases as well as all weapons they had deployed in Cuba "
This was done without consulting the Cuban leadership of comrade Fidel Castro or involving the Cubans in the negotiations. It was an example of a sordid deal between big powers at the expense of a small country .
It should be added here that People’s Korea under the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG gave support to Cuba by sending food and tractors as well as a group of authoritative technicians. A KPA General had been sent as DPRK Ambassador to Cuba.DPRK students studying in Cuba and DPRK diplomats armed themselves ready to fight by the side of the Cuban people. The DPRK also publicly supported the 5 -point demands of Premier Fidel Castro which included the US withdrawal from Guantanamo. This was in stark contrast to the USSR which stabbed the Cuban people in the back .
It was an act of abject surrender to US imperialism , an act of capitulation . The USSR was completely humiliated , it lost face . Its ships were searched by the US. It showed weakness in the face of the enemy . The message sent to the imperialists was that the socialist countries could be pushed and bullied by imperialism . It established a precedent for the imperialists to interfere in socialist countries and limit their weaponry or decide where it could be deployed .
Contrast this capitulationist line of the USSR to People's Korea guided by Juche . The DPRK tested its first nuclear weapon on the 9th of October 2006 16 years ago . Since then there have been countless sanctions by the UN and US as well as military pressure but the DPRK has not yielded .
When the first DPRK-US summit was held on the 12th of June 2018 some predicted that the DPRK would disarm unilaterally ( and not only disarm but open a McDonald's in Pyongyang and join the IMF ) . However 3 years later not a single DPRK ICBM or nuke has been dismantled .This year the DPRK has tested many missiles including the Hwasong Pho 17 ICBM .
Of course the debacle of the Cuban Missile crisis reinforced the lesson that a small country cannot rely on a big country for its defence . As comrade KIM JONG IL rightly pointed out “they provoked the Cuban missile crisis against the Republic of Cuba which put a severe strain on the situation.
The crisis teaches us the serious lesson that the socialist countries should not reveal any weakness in the face of the US imperialist aggressors but stoutly resist them . The weaker the former appears before the US imperialists , the more outrageous and insolent the latter becomes .
The crisis also shows that the socialist countries should not rely on the strength of another country in defending themselves . One should defend one's country on one's own strength , foreigners cannot defend it in one's own place . The recent developments indicate that is is a daydream to think that a big country with the latest weapons will ensure the security of brother countries"
How could People's Korea, a country much smaller in size than the old USSR manage to resist pressure from US and world imperialism when the USSR could not ? Well the secret is a simple one , it is called the Juche idea ! It is the Juche idea that makes the DPRK strong and able to resist pressure from imperialism . Juche and anti-imperialist independence are embodied in People's Korea !.
Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman British Group for Study of the Juche Idea
Chairman Korean Friendship Associaiton UK
Official Delegate KFA for the UK
Secretary General International Central Committee for Songun Study
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