>Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and North Korean leader Kim Il Sung during the former's visit to Pyongyang in September 1978. This was a follow-up to a trip four months earlier by Hua Guofeng, who must have pleased his hosts by denouncing the US military presence on the Korean peninsula. The Deng visit went over somewhat less well--he was unmoved by the extensive Kim Il Sung personality cult, something China was trying to abandon in the post-Mao era. In addition, Deng chafed at being expected to lay a wreath at the foot of the massive Kim statue in Pyongyang, which was covered in gold leaf and had been erected six years earlier to commemorate the North Korean leader's 60th birthday. He expressed his displeasure at what the DPRK was using Chinese aid for and proposed it might go instead to improving their people's living standards. The North Koreans appear to have gotten the hint as the gold leaf was quietly scraped off the statue afterward.[9]
>>18580125The more you read about COMMUNIST China and their leaders the more you realize they are the good guys, not a single capitalist cares about improving their own people's lives, much less their neighbours. Chinese leaders are always noble and pursue goals of world unity and equality after the americans finally get killed in ww3. What are the goals of western nations? Reinstating feudalism
>>18580166Deng the great liberalizer is proof of communist superirityWhat did he mean by this?
>>18580138as he said here, China was in utterly deplorable condition in the late 70s so some change was desperately needed after years of Mao faggotry
>>18580125During this era China was consistently worried about keeping Pyongyang in their good graces and not letting them become a 100% Soviet ally as that would result in China being encircled by the USSR and her allies on all sides.
>>18580125it was said that Kim Jong Il heavily pushed the personality cult of his father and the elder Kim was slightly embarrassed by it but couldn't do anything to stop it
>>18580166Ah yes that capitalist stronghold, North Korea
>>18580216the Kim cult was already huge as early as the 50s and it was reported that it had become a criminal offense to accidentally sit on a newspaper with Kim Il Sung's picture on it. however the elevation of him to a living deity was more in the 70s onward and believed Kim Jong Il's doing, especially once the regime officially replaced Marxism-Leninism with Juche as its ruling ideology.
