I've been doing some research (for no particular reason) into North Korea recently, and this passage (found here) interested me:
What was the real state of Maoist sentiment in North Korea in the sixties? Could the top-down-bottom-up popular fervor of the Cultural Revolution really reach Korea, so as to threaten the orthodox Soviet-style technocracy that was entrenching itself there? And what might the consequences of that be, whether or not the leadership supports it fully?
At a time when North Korea was faced with tremendous security challenges, particularly from the radical Cultural Revolution threatening to spill over its 1,300 kilometer border with China, several senior members of the KWP Central Committee (CC) began to challenge policies advanced by Kim Il Sung...
What was the real state of Maoist sentiment in North Korea in the sixties? Could the top-down-bottom-up popular fervor of the Cultural Revolution really reach Korea, so as to threaten the orthodox Soviet-style technocracy that was entrenching itself there? And what might the consequences of that be, whether or not the leadership supports it fully?