Perhaps more saliently, juche as the
guiding principle of foreign policy was utilized
as a means of balancing power between the
Soviet Union and China, and as a means to curb
the Soviet and Chinese influence in the country.
Kim’s wariness of Sino-Soviet involvement in
North Korean domestic affairs was exacerbated
by his personal dislike of the Soviets and the
country’s national inferiority complex towards
major powers. Kim became uneasy about the
Soviet Union’s gradual movement towards
peaceful coexistence with the United States in
the 1960s. However, involvement in
North Korean domestic affairs was exacerbated
by his personal dislike of the Soviets and the
country’s national inferiority complex towards
major powers. Kim became uneasy about the
Soviet Union’s gradual movement towards
peaceful coexistence with the United States in
the 1960s. However, involvement in
North Korean domestic affairs was exacerbated
by his personal dislike of the Soviets and the
country’s national inferiority complex towards
major powers. Kim became uneasy about the
Soviet Union’s gradual movement towards
peaceful coexistence with the United States in
the 1960s. However, involvement in
North Korean domestic affairs was exacerbated
by his personal dislike of the Soviets and the
country’s national inferiority complex towards
major powers. Kim became uneasy about the
Soviet Union’s gradual movement towards
peaceful coexistence with the United States in
the 1960s. However, because of the economic
and military aid Pyongyang was receiving from
Moscow, as well as Kim’s professed value for
unity in the Marxism-Leninism struggle against
imperialism, North Korea continued to support
Soviet positions on most issues. Gradually,
North Korea began to use the juche tenet of
foreign non-intervention and national self-determination as an ideological excuse for
cordoning off its governance from Moscow and
Beijing. Eventually, North Korea repudiated
both the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic
of China as a socialist imperialist state,
accusing its leaders of abandoning pure Marxism-Leninism principles to pursue
capitalist gains.19