The longer the friendship between China and the DPRK is stronger, it is a rare and valuable diplomatic relationship in China's modern and modern history, and both the leaders of the two countries and the masses of the people of the two countries are committed to the friendly development of Sino-DPRK relations.
Although they are two countries, they are as close as one family, helping each other in war and economy, and striving to move forward.
China's action to resist US aggression and aid Korea not only helped the DPRK smash the US conspiracy and defend the Korean Peninsula, but also achieved new China and launched the name of new China in the world.
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung also had a deep friendship with Premier Zhou, and during the time when the premier was seriously ill, Kim Il Sung specially came to Beijing from north Korea to visit, and when he found that Premier Zhou was tired of illness and skinny, he couldn't help but blush.
What happened to Premier Zhou's illness? What kind of friendship does Kim Il-sung, the South Korean leader, have with Premier Zhou? Why are the diplomatic relations between China and the DPRK so strong?
The Prime Minister is ill
After the founding of New China, Premier Zhou worked day and night, but he damaged his body and stayed up late for a long time to work, causing his heart to have problems.
As he grew older, his body became more and more overwhelmed, and he had to take a lot of medicine every day, and the staff always advised him to rest, but the prime minister said, "China needs me." ”
This sentence, Premier Zhou deserved, the development of New China, diplomacy, are shouldered on the shoulders of Premier Zhou, New China has just been founded, the status of the country is embarrassing, countries are looking at the tiger, how can he put down his work to recuperate his body?
Premier Zhou was sincere all his life, but he became a "disobedient" patient in the mouth of doctors.
The doctor said, "The prime minister should rest well, the angina is due to lack of sleep", and Premier Zhou has to work until the early morning every day because of heavy work.
The doctor said, "The premier should eat and take medicine on time", and Premier Zhou's busy feet did not touch the ground, and it was often reminded by the staff that he remembered to take medicine.
Premier Zhou is a good premier of the people, but he is not a good master of the body, he puts the individual behind the country and the people, and is bent on working for China's development and running for the people's lives.
Heart disease is still endangering Premier Zhou's health, and another disease has also quietly arrived.
In 1972, during a routine physical examination, Premier Zhou was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and once this diagnosis was proved, everyone did not want to believe it.
Only Premier Zhou, who calmly took the diagnosis report, looked at the bright red word of diagnosis on it, and said comfortingly: "A small cancer will not affect my continued service to the people." ”
As Premier Zhou said, cancer did not stop him from working, but made him feel more pressed for time, always feeling that if he didn't finish everything, he might not have time in the future.
At that time, Premier Zhou was 74 years old, such a heavy workload could not be eaten by the body, and the cancer developed particularly fast, so he could only be admitted to the hospital for treatment according to the doctor's arrangement.
Bladder cancer is both cancer and difficult to treat in itself, coupled with the limited medical level in the mainland at that time, the treatment results have not progressed for a long time.
To this end, the central government specially gathered experts from all over the country and set up a treatment team to study specific and effective treatment plans according to Premier Zhou's condition.
Long-term chemotherapy has made Premier Zhou's body emaciated day by day, the clothes that used to fit are empty on the body, during the treatment period, Premier Zhou is still not at ease with work, so that people will send the documents to be processed to the hospital, the prime minister he is always like this, half a moment can not be idle.
Later, after being transferred to Yuquanshan Hospital, through the treatment of electrocautery, Premier Zhou's condition was temporarily controlled, but the situation did not improve for long, and the condition deteriorated again.
This time, Premier Zhou was pushed onto the operating table, and the lesion spread widely, to the point where it had to be treated by resection, but the risk was also very high.
In the later stages of cancer, Premier Zhou underwent many surgeries, but they could not get good treatment results, every light in the operating room, it tightly touched the hearts of all medical staff, China needs Premier Zhou, such a great figure, should not be taken by the disease.
Premier Zhou really spent his whole life trying to work hard for China, and during the treatment, his body was completely depleted, but he was still working hard for China's diplomatic cause, and he received a number of foreign envoys, and Kim Il Sung was one of them.
Reception of foreign guests
In April 1975, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung visited the mainland, and after learning of Premier Zhou's serious illness, he applied to the Central Committee to meet Premier Zhou.
Not only because of the friendship between China and the DPRK, but also because Kim Il-sung and Premier Zhou had a good personal relationship, the central authorities agreed to his meeting with Premier Zhou at Kim Il-sung's repeated requests.
At that time, Premier Zhou had just come down from the operating table and was in a very poor state, and when he heard that Kim Il-sung wanted to see him, he took the initiative to tell the central authorities that he should see him.
The meeting did not choose to be in the ward, even if he was seriously ill, Premier Zhou still asked people to help him change into a proper Zhongshan suit, but this leather shoe could not be worn.
Because of chemotherapy, Premier Zhou's foot was swollen, and the original shoe number was really small, but at that time, it was only one day before the meeting, and Gao Zhenpu took the task of making new shoes.
He drove all the way to find Wang Fengde, a shoemaker who often made shoes for Premier Zhou, and asked him to hurry up to make a pair of cloth shoes, "Try to be bigger, don't make it small, there is no time to change." ”
Wang Fengde even responded, did not sleep all night that night, the next morning he made the shoes out, Gao Zhenpu looked at the blood under his eyes, he knew that the shoes were made overnight, from the bag to take the shoe money to him, more as if it was an urgent fee.
Who expected the teacher fu not to accept his money, and asked him, "Is the prime minister in good health now?" We, the little people, can only know from the newspapers that the prime minister is ill, and we are also extremely worried. ”
Gao Zhenpu did not tell Wang Fengde who this shoe was made for, but an old craftsman like Wang Fengde could not be more familiar with his stitches, and with just one glance, he recognized that this was a shoe made for Premier Zhou before, and finally Gao Zhenpu took a tough attitude and stuffed the money into him, and he accepted it.
In the makeshift living room of the hospital, Kim Il Sung finally met Premier Zhou, and as soon as he entered the door, he looked at the skinny premier sitting on the sofa, heard the opening of the door and stood up, accompanied by Comrade Deng Xiaoping.
When Kim Il Sung saw Premier Zhou, he unusually went forward and hugged Premier Zhou, and with this hug, he realized that Premier Zhou had lost enough weight to have only a skeleton supporting it, far more sad than what the naked eye saw, and he felt grief in his heart and sighed a long sigh, "Premier! ”
Premier Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, and did not describe his illness too much, and Deng Xiaoping on the side quickly led Kim Il Sung to sit down, and Premier Zhou also slowly asked about some of the current situation in North Korea.
At the end of the talks, Premier Zhou and Kim Il Sung said, "If there is something to do in the future, you can find Comrade Deng Xiaoping." ”
The premier had expected that his body would not last long, and hoped that Deng Xiaoping would take over his work and be responsible for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the DPRK. Kim Il Sung responded one after another, and when he left, he said that he would come to visit mr. prime minister again next time he came to China.
The following year, Kim Il Sung was worried about the prime minister's illness, but he was suffering from many things in the DPRK and could not get away from it, so he ordered a special envoy to go to Beijing on his behalf to visit Premier Zhou, but at that time, Premier Zhou was seriously ill and had no energy to meet him again, so the central authorities politely refused his request.
On January 8, 1976, Premier Zhou died in Beijing Hospital, and after the news reached North Korea, Kim Il-sung could not control his inner pain, cried on the spot, resulting in eye infection, and the original eye surgery could only be postponed. ”
Why would Kim Il-sung cry like this? Why does he have such deep feelings for Premier Zhou?
Friendly diplomacy
The friendship between Premier Zhou and Kim Il Sung began at the beginning of the founding of China, when on the Korean battlefield, the Mainland Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army joined hands to resist the enemy, and Kim Il Sung also flew to Beijing many times to meet with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou to discuss countermeasures.
Premier Zhou also often sent people to North Korea, and in this way, the two established a friendly friendship during the war-torn Korean War.
As the founder of Sino-DPRK friendly relations, Premier Zhou has made great efforts to visit the DPRK many times, and is deeply loved by the DPRK people and admired by the DPRK leader Kim Il Sung.
In February 1958, Premier Zhou led a Chinese delegation to North Korea for the first time and discussed with Kim Il Sung the decision to withdraw Chinese volunteers from Korea.
In order to better understand the development of the DPRK and promote the subsequent exchanges between the two countries, Premier Zhou disregarded the cold and, under the leadership of the reception staff, visited the Heungnam Fertilizer Factory, and put forward a number of constructive suggestions during the visit.
At that time, it coincided with the Spring Festival, the Chinese delegation stayed in North Korea for the New Year, Premier Zhou and Kim Il Sung repeatedly talked about wine, which can be described as "wine every confidant a thousand cups less", Premier Zhou also took out China's Moutai wine to invite Kim Il Sung to taste together.
The two men agreed on the withdrawal plan of the Chinese volunteers, issued a statement confirming that the Chinese volunteers would all withdraw from North Korea by October, and the visit was successfully completed.
In July 1961, Kim Il Sung came to China and signed a Sino-DPRK treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with the Representative of the Chinese Government, Premier Zhou Enlai.
In the autumn of 1963, two years later, Kim Il Sung visited China again and came to northeast China to exchange factory corporate culture construction, and Premier Zhou deliberately pushed off other jobs and flew from Beijing to Shenyang to meet with him.
Unfortunately, after the internal political turmoil in China, the communication between the two friends had no choice but to be suspended, until 1969, at the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of New China, North Korea sent government personnel to congratulate them.
In April of the following year, Premier Zhou received a return visit to North Korea. When Premier Zhou arrived at the airport, Kim Il Sung personally came to greet him, and it seemed that when Premier Zhou got off the plane, he said a word, "Premier Zhou Enlai, you are tired and thin. ”
Premier Zhou's current visit to the DPRK was intended to repair Sino-DPRK relations affected by China's "Cultural Revolution," and Kim Il-sung's friendly attitude also made the talks go very smoothly.
During the talks, Premier Zhou explained to the leaders of the DPRK government the current situation in China and the idea of developing the friendship between China and the DPRK in a lasting manner.
In 1971, after Kissinger's secret visit to China, China's establishment of diplomatic relations with foreign countries also underwent tremendous changes, in order to dispel the doubts of the North Korean government, Premier Zhou secretly went to Pyongyang, and Kim Il-sung analyzed China's considerations in Sino-US relations, which was understood and supported by Kim Il-sung.
It is precisely because of the friendly exchanges between Premier Zhou and Kim Il Sung that there has been no gap between the two countries and has always maintained a diplomatic state of mutual help and mutual assistance.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries, after experiencing some unpredictable changes and changes in the times, still maintain their initial trust in each other, which is inseparable from Premier Zhou's excellent diplomatic ability.
When he visited North Korea in 1970, one of Premier Zhou's moves was to reconcile China and North Korea.
The story of the turnip
In 1970, when Premier Zhou Enlai visited the DPRK for the second time, he sent a pound of shawo radish to Kim Il Sung. What kind of precious radish was it that Premier Zhou actually took it from China to North Korea and finally to the hands of the North Korean leader?
This is really just a basket of ordinary turnips, and what is unusual is the meaning behind it.
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US military's air force gave them the superiority of air superiority, and used bombers to inflict heavy casualties on the Sino-DPRK coalition forces; their air force drove bombers to the rear of our army, bombed indiscriminately, destroyed the supplies in the rear, and the soldiers suffered from the problem of insufficient food and water.
Some fighters found that radish can be buried in the soil for preservation, on the one hand, this storage condition can extend its storage cycle, on the other hand, the bombing of the US Air Force can not have a great impact on its consumption.
On top of that, radishes are rich in a lot of water that can be used to address the body's water intake.
After Premier Zhou learned of this situation, he purchased radish on a large scale in the mainland and transported it to the Korean battlefield, and the shawo radish in Tianjin has a large amount of moisture and good taste, and it is also the most transported radish variety to the battlefield.
This gift of turnips is not only the radish itself, but also represents the arduous years when China and the DPRK once fought side by side, and the deep friendship established by the Chinese and DPRK peoples in the war.
In 1979, three years after premier Zhou Enlai's death, in order to commemorate his great contribution to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung decided to cast a bronze statue of Premier Zhou Enlai in North Korea.
With the personal participation and supervision of Kim Il-il, a bronze statue of Premier Zhou Enlai was built on the square of the selected Xingnan Fertilizer Factory.
In that year, Premier Zhou Enlai braved heavy snow to visit the Xingnan Fertilizer Factory and delivered a grand speech here.
His mighty figure has also remained in the hearts of the Korean people, and it is best to choose this place to cast a bronze statue as a memorial, and this bronze statue is also the only bronze statue of a leader of another country in North Korea.
The bronze statue as a whole is 4.8 meters high, divided into two parts, the bottom base is made of a huge white granite, 2.1 meters high, above which is a bust of Premier Zhou cast in copper, carved exactly what Premier Zhou was giving at the Xingnan Fertilizer Factory at that time.
The Prime Minister looked ahead, holding the speech in one hand, and the other hand was naturally carried during the speech, very solemn and serious.
The bronze statue looks very tall, although it is cast in a short period of time, but the overall is very fine, the face is exquisite, the whole body line is smooth, even the texture of the clothes is restored very well, and the details can be seen with care.
The bronze statue with its head held above the blue sky and its back against the cang pine seems to have returned to the scene when Premier Zhou visited the DPRK and stood in the wind, and under the stage were tens of thousands of North Korean people.
After the bronze statue was cast, Premier Zhou's wife, Deng Yingchao, was invited by Kim Il Sung to North Korea to complete the unveiling ceremony of the bronze statue with him.
Many people in the DPRK have brought flowers to pay their respects, and Premier Zhou Enlai is also a great leader in the hearts of the Korean people, and many Chinese tourists have also come to pay tribute.
Epilogue:
Premier Zhou Enlai poured too much effort into the friendship between China and the DPRK, and it is precisely because of his dedication to the development of the two countries that the Korean people have such a lofty reverence for him.
The name of Zhou Enlai, the Chinese leader, has become a household name in the whole of North Korea, and in the history of friendly relations between China and the DPRK, Premier Zhou Enlai has left a strong mark and also left a valuable ideological wealth for China's diplomatic work.