Why was China and the Soviet Union silent when Kim Il Sung was cleaning the interior?Revealing North Korea's Great Secret.
In 1945, under the escort of Soviet troops, the 33-year-old Kim Il Sung returned to the Korean Peninsula, and three years later he established the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North Korea was faced with a complicated situation in the early days, and due to the support of the Soviets for Kim Il Sung, the pressure of the puppet regime of Syngman Rhee in South Korea, and the US military, the secretary of the Communist Party of Korea (KP) Pak Heon-yong, had to relocate the organization to the area north of the 38th parallel, which was controlled by the Soviet Union.
During this period, different factions such as the "Yan'an faction" represented by Wu Ting, the "Soviet faction" led by Heo Jiayi, and the "Jiasan faction" represented by Park Jin-chul returned to Korea, hoping to jointly rebuild the modern Korean state.
However, due to their different origins, experiences, ideas and interests they represented, Kim Il Sung's position in the country was not stable. In order to solve this problem and achieve national reunification as soon as possible, in 1950, Kim Il Sung, after consulting Stalin, launched a large-scale southward advance and attacked the area south of the 38th parallel with a thunderous force.
During the Korean People's Army's southward advance, they marched all the way, and the South Korean and American forces were forced to retreat to Busan. The Korean People's Army controlled 90 percent of the peninsula's land and 92 percent of the population, and Kim Il Sung's prestige was at its peak.
However, with the landing of U.S. troops at Incheon, the Korean People's Army was split in two, and the situation took a turn for the worse. Kim Il Sung led the remnants of his troops to the north to the river border, and at the same time, Vojeong was accused of being unfavorable in the battle and was relieved of his post.
Then, Kim Il Sung took advantage of the big ** against the US military to clean up the "Soviet faction" of Heo Jiayi, the "Yan'an faction" of Mooting, and the "Southern Labor faction" of Park Heon-yong.
These factions often represent different interest groups, especially the "Soviet faction" and the "Yan'an faction".
What is puzzling is that when Kim Il Sung carried out a large-scale purge in the country, the China and the Soviet Union next to him remained silent about it. So, what made China and the Soviet Union so indifferent at the time of Kim Il Sung's powerful purge?
In 1953, after the death of Stalin, Khrushchev, with the support of Zhukov, became the first secretary of the CPSU and rose to the pinnacle of power. Immediately after Khrushchev came to power, he began to de-Stalinize and purge his once close allies Malenkov, Molotov and others from the party.
The DPRK side gave full support and affirmation to Khrushchev's move. In order to consolidate his position, Khrushchev turned a blind eye to what Kim Il Sung was doing.
Soon after, Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate, and the ideological and diplomatic differences between the two sides deepened. In order to win the support of external international forces, China and the Soviet Union provided large-scale military and economic assistance to North Korea, and Kim Il-sung's previous actions were downplayed.
Thus, despite Kim Il Sung's extensive purge at home, the situation at home and abroad at that time meant that China and the Soviet Union could only give a symbolic warning to his actions.
This laid a solid foundation for Kim Il Sung's later establishment of Juche Ideology.