APPEALS FOR INCREASED AID ‘TO NORTH VIETNAM
‘The North Korean Communist “party has ‘criticized Peking for putting pressure on Cuba in the course of the Sino-Soviet dispute. Furthermore, according to an October 5 Associated Press dispatch from Tokyo, the North Korean party attacked Russian "modern revisionism" and proclaimed that “each Communist party must uphold the principle of. independency. " . These. comments were contained ina strong appeal by party. chairman Kim Il. Sung to all.countries in the Sino-Soviet bloc to. send volunteers to Vietnam. Chairman Kim's appeal thus ‘paralleled the position that has been taken by Fidel Castro since March 15, 1965, when the Cuban leader stated that his country favored send~ . ing arms and men to Vietnam, whatever the risks entailed.
According to the Associated Press, "Kim did not. just offer to send volunteers, he argued that they should be sent. Kim painted a bleak picture. of differences in the Communist world and said that they could not be settled now. He lambasted Moscow and -Peking — equally. -in possibly. one of the bluntest public pronouncements by. a Communist leader in recent years." =
"We -deem it necessary," Kim stated, "for all the Socialist countries,;,first of all, to dispatch international volunteers to. assist the fighting people of Vietnam. This will be the first step: toward realization of joint action against imperialism.....When definite conditions are created, the. fraternal parties may hold a conference and discuss the question of anti- imperialist Joint action in a concrete way.
“Rarlier," according to the account, Kim said "that the U.S. was expanding the Vietnam war and 'pringing in troops of their subordinate countries and puppets.' Because of this, he said, every Communist country 'should dispatch volunteers to Vietnam. This is
the internationalist duty of the Socialist countries to the brotherly Vietnamese people.
' "Most of his report was devoted to differences among the Communist countries....He decried Moscow's overtures to Yugoslavia...." Kim rejected Peking's claim that it had taken over world Communist leadership under Mao Tse-tung, saying: "It is impossible that any one country becomes the ‘center of world revolution.
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