The Great Leader President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) - whose 108th birthday will be celebrated on April 15 - fought all his life for the independence and sovereignty of Korea - first against Japanese imperialism and national liberation, then against the US aggressors in the Fatherland Liberation War.
He also fought for global independence, for the right of countries and peoples to self-determination and for friendship between them.
Since its foundation (September 9, 1948), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has maintained close, friendly, solidarity and comradely relationships with all socialist states. President Kim Il Sung made state and friendship visits to most of them several times and received many of their leaders in Pyongyang.
The two largest socialist states - the Soviet Union and China - had also provided military aid to the Korean people: the former in the final offensive of the Korean Revolutionary People's Army (KPRA) against the Japanese colonialists and for the liberation of Korea (1945), the latter in the Fatherland Liberation War(Korean War, 1950-1953) against the United States aggressors and for defence of the motherland .
However in the later 1950s and early 1960s, modern revisionism and great power chauvinism emerged in the international communist movement and in the socialist world.
After the formation of the "Council for Mutual Economic Aid" (CMEA), which it dominated, the Soviet Union also wanted to persuade the DPRK to join. But this was incompatible with the development of the independent and independent economy based on the Juche ideology and would have led to dependence on a major power.
President Kim Il Sung knew this very well and therefore decidedly said "No" to the pressure attempts by the Soviet state and party leader NS Khrushchev.
As early as June 1956,While visiting Moscow in the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, A. Mikoyan, the first vice-chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, tried to persuade the DPRK to join the CMEA.
Despite the DPRK's friendly relations with the Soviet Union and the other CMEA countries, President Kim Il Sung politely but firmly declined Mikoyan's "invitation".
After Mikoyan's failure, Khrushchev harnessed the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia and other CMEA countries to put pressure on the DPRK - but with the same failure!
President Kim Il Sung said that the DPRK respected the Soviet Union and was friendly with it, but resolutely rejected any dependence on it and any domination.
He said the following to Soviet statesman Yuri Andropov, who was in Pyongyang in January 1963:
"If your party has a good opinion, we support it and go the same way, but if you express an opinion that is unfavorable to us, we will show it to you back and go our own way. "
And he said to Andropov:
"“Building an independent national economy belongs in no way to nationalism but to internationalism. As I said to Khrushchev earlier, we would not have to import grains from the Soviet Union when we’ve built an independent national economy and have a rich harvest. This might be internationalist aid to the Soviet Union on our part. Self-reliance means standing on your own feet. What’s wrong with our self-reliant stand? Nothing’s wrong.”
The determined and firm stance of President Kim Il Sung impressed and convinced Andropov.
On his return to Moscow, he shared Khrushchev's position with President Kim Il Sung. With. This finally ended the long controversy about the DPRK joining the CMEA. The Soviet attempts to print stopped.
This historical episode shows that proud and independent socialist Korea does not bow to pressure - even if it is exerted by a friendly "socialist" great power - and victoriously opposes revisionism and great power chauvinism.
The DPRK is an anti-imperialist and anti-revisionist country! Nobody can talk her into it!
Thanks to President Kim Il Sung's firm stance .Socialist Korea was able to advance victoriously in the following 50-60 years, successfully develop its independent and self-sufficient economy and become a proud and independent major socialist economic power in the Far East, while the Soviet Union and the CMEA socialist countries in Europe collapsed.
These historical facts prove the correctness of President Kim Il Sung's wise statement that dependence on ruin, but independence leads to victory!
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