A Piece of Kim Il Sung's History
ㅡ After the end of World War II in 1945, the army of the Chinese Nationalist Party under the command of Chiang Kai-shek launched a massive offensive against Mao Zedong's communist forces. Mao Zedong's army lost all territories and was pushed to the border with Korea and China. The Soviet Union, which recognized the Chiang Kai-shek government as the official government of China, refused to support Mao Tsetung. Mao Zedong's special envoy rushed to Pyongyang and asked President Kim Il Sung for help. In addition to 100,000 weapons recovered from the capitulated Japanese army, President Kim Il Sung dispatched competent military commanders, anti-Japanese guerrillas and tens of thousands of young Koreans to Mao Zedong. At the time, it was a huge support, considering the liberation of Korea that took place only a few months back, and it came as a surprise not only to Kim Il Sung's advisers but also to the Soviet military and administrative authorities stationed in the northern part of Korea.
A new unit was set up with young Koreans turned into the main offensive force, and a massive counterattack by Mao Zedong's army began. Chinese historians estimate that more than 250,000 Korean youth were killed in the 1945-1949 Chinese Civil War. Mao Zedong later said that the red colour of the Chinese flag was also stained with the blood of Koreans. The decision to send the People's Volunteer Army of China during the Korean War in October 1950 was a response to the rescue of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Revolution.
ㅡ At the end of August 1967, Pyongyang was flooded with great water. President Kim Il Sung directly addressed the issues of safety and the protection of the livelihoods of citizens at the site of the flood. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese ambassador to Pyongyang met with President Kim Il Sung and asked about the millions of clothes that the DPRK had promised.
In the spring of 1967, Pyongyang promised millions of clothes for the victims of the Vietnam War. Politicians close to President Kim Il Sung believed that the production of clothing for Vietnam could inevitably be delayed, just as the Pyongyang Textile Factory that was supposed to produce them had been flooded. However, President Kim Il Sung said Koreans should help ordinary Vietnamese suffering from the war. The first thing Pyongyang Textile Factory produced after removing the flood damage was fabric for the Vietnamese.
ㅡ President Kim Il Sung first met Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia in 1965. Back then, Kim Il Sung highly appreciated his independent political views. In 1970, Norodom emigrated to the People's Republic of China after the coup in Cambodia. But Kim Il Sung still had a good relationship with him.
Many foreign politicians, friends of Kim Il Sung, repeatedly tried to convince him to sever relations with Norodom, who was losing everything politically.
President Kim Il Sung replied that a man must respect the loyalty and conscience of his friends. He even had his house built in Pyongyang, where Norodom and his family lived for 20 years.
After regaining power again by Norodom in 1991. Kim Il Sung's friends asked him in great surprise how he had predicted the future of his return to the centre of politics.
Then Kim Il Sung replied that he has to help people when they are in trouble, this is a real human face, but also that he is surprised by his return to power. Norodom never used official words when addressing Kim Il Sung. He just called him brother. After Kim Il Sung's death, he continued his relationship with Kim Jong Il
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