Great Leader Kim Il Sung with Great King Norodom Sihanouk in April 1994
Norodom Sihanouk salutes the “immortal Great Leader” of North Korea
14 Oct 2008
By A.L.G.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translation from French by Tola Ek
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King-Father expressed his admiration for Kim Il Sung, his “benefactor,” by assuring his “infinite love, admiration, gratefulness, respect.”
Norodom Sihanouk reminisced about his friendship with Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean State leader and founder of the communist regime in Pyongyang who died in 1994, in a letter sent to the editor of the “Rodong Sin Moun” newspaper, which King-Father called “the great newspaper of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
In his message posted on his website, the former monarch recalled “the kindness, goodwill, love, generosity, hospitality, encouragements, solace, support, justice, which are unique in the world” shown to him by the “very illustrious, revered, beloved, so admired Marshall President Kim Il Sung” for several “decades long” when he (King-Father) was met with the “worst misfortune, misery, suffering and humiliations.”
Calling the former head of state the “immortal Great Leader of the glorious Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” King-Father assured that he will revere the latter “until the end of his life and in the afterlife.”
The two men met each other in 1961 in Belgrade, during a meeting of non-aligned heads of state.
In 1970, Norodom Sihanouk found refuge in Pyongyang where Kim Il Sung put a palace for his disposition. In his message, King-Father recalled “the immense contribution” made by Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong Il to “the success of our second struggle for national liberation between 1970 and 1975.”
Norodom Sihanouk’s birth home is now used as the North Korean embassy in Phnom Penh.
Norodom Sihanouk reminisced about his friendship with Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean State leader and founder of the communist regime in Pyongyang who died in 1994, in a letter sent to the editor of the “Rodong Sin Moun” newspaper, which King-Father called “the great newspaper of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
In his message posted on his website, the former monarch recalled “the kindness, goodwill, love, generosity, hospitality, encouragements, solace, support, justice, which are unique in the world” shown to him by the “very illustrious, revered, beloved, so admired Marshall President Kim Il Sung” for several “decades long” when he (King-Father) was met with the “worst misfortune, misery, suffering and humiliations.”
Calling the former head of state the “immortal Great Leader of the glorious Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” King-Father assured that he will revere the latter “until the end of his life and in the afterlife.”
The two men met each other in 1961 in Belgrade, during a meeting of non-aligned heads of state.
In 1970, Norodom Sihanouk found refuge in Pyongyang where Kim Il Sung put a palace for his disposition. In his message, King-Father recalled “the immense contribution” made by Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong Il to “the success of our second struggle for national liberation between 1970 and 1975.”
Norodom Sihanouk’s birth home is now used as the North Korean embassy in Phnom Penh.
