WI: North Korea without Kim Il Sung

In the political struggle to assume leadership of the Workers Party of Korea, let's assume Kim Il Sung's "guerrilla" faction is defeated, and in typical Commie style Kim Il Sung is denounced as a Trotskyist-Fascist-Right-Wing-Titoist traitor and written out of the history books, with the credit instead going to such leaders as Pak Chang Ok and Kim Tu-bong.

Does North Korea:
A) Become a typical Soviet style-state, with eventual Destalinisation? Might the Fall of Communism result in it's unification with the South?
B) Fall under the influence of Beijing? Could it become a Chinese puppet, with Maoism imposed from over the border and perhaps even being forced into some kind of pseudo-Union with the PRC?
C) Become another Albania?
D) Develop Juche as in OTL but with a different figure head?
E) Do something completely different?
 
You've covered all the most likely scenario's so

a.) 2nd most likely option though a switch from Moscow to Beijing in 1990 is more likely than re-unification.
b.) Beijing puppet is the most likely, heading first into Maoism and then opening up when Deng comes in (if he does). A union is v. unlikely as long as Pyongyang knows whose boss there is no need to raise hackles.
c/d.) Strike me as roughly similar, i.e. go their own version of Communism, while it might happen down the track prior to 1970 N. Korea is going to want a great power sponsor.
e.) always a possibility though I think a.) and b.) are far more likely than anything else.
 
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