Plausibility Check: Possible Titoist North Korea

Inspired by threads on how the Soviet Union can be reformed on the Chinese model, was there a possible way for North Korea to have a communist leader on the Titoist mold? Anyone from either the Muscovite or Yenan faction or even a South Korean communist who could be a North Korean Tito. I am not sure if Kim Il Sung fits as a Titoist in a military sense.
 
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Inspired by threads on how the Soviet Union can be reformed on the Chinese model, was there a possible way for North Korea to have a communist leader on the Titoist mold? Anyone from either the Muscovite or Yenan faction or even a South Korean communist who could be a North Korean Tito. I am not sure if Kim Il Sung fits as a Titoist in a military sense.
I find it hard to beleive it would survive without the Russian support that Titos Yugoslavia lacked and any leader who didn't follow either Russia or China would lack.
 
True, since most of the Korean resistance groups fought alongside Mao's PLA and the Soviets (the latter only briefly). I'm also wondering how North Korea could actually attain better economical prosperity without Kim Il Sung's regime around.
 
So maybe North Korea can expand its relationship with Yugoslavia, forming a true Non-Aligned Movement if China doesn't join. On the other hand this would require Kim Il Sung to adopt Titoist style market socialism reforms that may enable North Korea to remain on the top of the economical competition with South Korea, possibly ensuring a smooth, Korean reunification with a mix of capitalism and market socialism.
 
The only problem with something like this is that North Korea's patrons (i.e. first the USSR, later China) would be very unhappy with something like that and might threaten to withdraw support over it.

But, if this could be done in a justifiable and plausible way, it would be cool to see for a timeline.
 
Well the main obstacle is that the USSR had MUCH MUCH more power over post-war North Korea than over post-war Yugoslavia. The Soviet ambassador called the shots in the immediate post-war period and had various laws drawn up and government members hand-picked (source: Andrei Lankov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Lankov) so it'd take some time for North Korea to develop in a Titoist direction but North Korea developed more freedom of action later, especially after the Sino-Soviet Split when they could play the Russians and Chinese off against each other.

Probably the best way of doing this would be to avoid the Korean War or have the North win the Korean War quickly. The North wasn't in all that bad of a position economically, it has most of Korea's natural resources and most of the factories and stuff the Japanese built were in the North. It took until 1965 for the South's GDP per capita to catch up (after that however...) and North Korea stayed richer than China per capita for quite a long time (the North Korean standard of living wasn't all that bad until after the fall of the Soviet Union, when it when it shit horrifically).
 
Avoiding the Korean War might be easy: have the Soviets NOT boycott the UN Security Council meeting because of the American veto at allowing the People's Republic of China to be a part of the UN. If the Soviets were present at the UNSC meeting when they decided to place troops in Korea, they can veto it. If the Korean War does break out though and the North wins, then we'd get a unified Korea under Pyongyang's rule.
 
Actually, by the time Kim Jong Il took over, North Korea has pretty much ended up down the drain due to the Songun policies, which literally wrecked the economy plus sanctions didn't come until after they experimented with nuclear weapons. Perhaps butterflying away Juche would have help, or reforming Juche can also work, although that would be like reforming the USSR before it collapses.
 
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