Master of Independent Diplomacy (1) Admiration of Stalin (from http://friend.com.kp/)

Stalin succeeded the cause of Lenin to turn the USSR to a powerful socialist country and led the World War II to victory to defend socialism and establish a socialist system against the imperialist camp on the planet, which gave him an accepted authority among the world revolutionary movement and state leaders. However, he treated President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) with exceptional friendly feeling and sense of trust beyond the ages and background of struggle. It was because President Kim Il Sung was a leader possessed of a strong confidence of independence and a thorough-going spirit of self-reliance and self-support. 
His line of building up the state in Korea following the liberation after the defeat of Japanese imperialism attracted a great attention of Stalin.
What Stalin was very keen to know was what idea, aim and ways President Kim Il Sung would take in leading the construction of a new society in Korea.
The state up-building in Korea at the time assumed a great complexity for an entanglement of many problems.
The northern half of Korea was under the occupation of the Soviet army, but the southern half under the U.S. army, accompanying all shades of isms and doctrines. Out of this complexity of the situation President Kim Il Sung put forth a line of establishing a unique Korean-style democracy and an independent sovereignty different from either the Soviet style or the U.S. style and settled all the problems raised in the construction of new Korea on an independent position. Based on this idea he suggested a proposal of simultaneous withdrawal of the both armies, Soviet and U.S., from the north and the south of Korea and initiated to Stalin the problem of the withdrawal of the Soviet army from North Korea.
It was beyond imagination when compared to the stands of the East European leaders who thought to owe the Soviet army by extending the duration of its stationing in their respective countries.
Towards the end of June 1946 in the talk with Stalin, President Kim Il Sung was firm in the stand and principle of independence in discussing the problems raised in the construction in new Korea. Stalin sincerely sympathized with his scientific analysis on the specific situation Korea was in and his decision and plan for the construction of the independent new society and gave full support to them.
Stalin expressed his admiration in the talk with President Kim Il Sung to this effect: Comrade Kim Il Sung, though still 34, is well versed with all problems. Your analysis and interpretation on all problems are correct.
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