In the original timeline, North Korea was once a highly developed socialist country, and the Juche ideology strictly guarded against peaceful evolution, and even though it escaped the tragedy of the drastic changes to Eastern Europe, it did not escape the heavy damage brought by the collapse of the socialist camp. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Their tragedies all began in 1991.

Originally, North Korea's agriculture was highly mechanized, but before the collapse of the Soviet Union, North Korea received a large amount of cheap oil from the Soviet Union, coupled with the help of the socialist camp to build large-scale mechanized production. Their agricultural system runs entirely on oil. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, North Korea was no longer able to import cheap oil from the Soviet Union. The agricultural system soon collapsed, and then directly affected the people's living standards, and as a result, it is now half-dead.

However, the fact that the Soviet Union did not collapse does not mean that North Korea is having an easy time, and as early as 1991, Yanayev has been increasing the price of crude oil year by year. The pressure on North Korea is also getting worse every year, and the North Korean state in this timeline is more like a slow collapse than a direct collapse in history, but without the sudden famine. It was not until 1998 that the price of oil supplied by the Soviet Union to North Korea was not much different from that on the market, that Generalissimo Kim realized that it was impossible for them to leave the Soviet Union.

Without the Soviet Union, North Korea would have collapsed outright. Yanayev was thinking about whether the Soviet Union's vigorous assistance to North Korea's development was aimed at building it into a developed agricultural power, and turning it into the kind of country that would not survive without itself.

Oil is a haunting nightmare that haunts Chairman Kim's heart.

So when Yanayev proposed to exchange the port for oil, the North Korean leader was not angry, but excited. Now that the whole country is gradually declining, it would be wise to exchange the opening of ports for Soviet oil support.

Since the time of Stalin, the Soviet leaders have always had a great interest in the Korean Peninsula, because the strategic interests of the Soviet Union in the Far East are at stake, and there is a reason why Stalin suddenly agreed to Kim Il Sung's plan to unify Korea by force, because at this time, China and the Soviet Union signed a new treaty, and the Soviet Union was about to lose its access to the sea and ice-free ports in the Pacific Ocean, while there were three excellent ports in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. If the entire Korean Peninsula could be controlled, then the strategic interests of the USSR in the Far East would be guaranteed.

Vladivostok was not a completely ice-free port, but the port of Chingjin was the target of Yanayev's attention, and after the contraction of the front in the mid-to-late eighties and early nineties, he turned his attention again to the Far East, which he closely followed.

The Soviet Union could establish a military port here, and it could also be used as a stopover point for southward transportation in the Far East, and it could also become a link for exchanges with East Asian countries.

Instead of taking one or two navigable ports, the entire port of Cheongjin was assigned to the Soviet side.

Yanayev thought it very well, so he secretly lectured Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Eui-chun face-to-face.

"The Soviet Union can bring North Korea back to life, but it has to pay a price, if President Kim Jong Il is willing to come to Moscow for a meeting, I am willing to show North Korea a way to go, a real way to live, of course I will charge you for your due 'service'. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and the Soviet Union has its own plans. ”

In fact, he does not need any conspiracy at all, and he can openly blackmail others, and the DPRK is now in such a half-dead state, and the stalemate between Kim Chong-il and Kim Chong-il will only end miserably. In the face of the USSR and dignity, he quickly chose the former.

Because when you're dead, there's nothing.

This is the second time Yanayev has met Kim Jong-il in the Kremlin, and the last time it was to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The other party also held a belly of suspicion, and stepped into this palace under the leadership of Park Yichun. The greatest feeling that this neat and well-guarded palace gave him was that Yanayev had control over the whole country everywhere.

In the richly decorated baroque conference room, Kim Il Sung met General Secretary Yanayev, who had been waiting for him for a long time. The other party looks like a cold ice cube, and the whole body exudes an unapproachable feeling. However, this just omitted Kim Chong-il's greetings and went straight to the main topic, the issue of negotiations on the Korean Peninsula.

"Now North Korea is facing a serious financial situation, if the Soviet Union is not willing to continue to provide oil, it will be difficult for us to continue to export grain and other grains, everyone knows that North Korea is a highly developed mechanized country, without oil, it is equivalent to the end of our agricultural system."

Although Yanayev showed the idea of schadenfreude in his heart, he couldn't show it, so he could only put on a serious face and said, "I remember that a long time ago, the Soviet Union once leased Rason to North Korea, but then North Korea fell on both sides of the wall and rejected the Soviet Union's garrison plan, which made the Soviet Union feel very dissatisfied at that time. So now we are going to borrow the port of Sinuiju in addition to your Cheongjin port, so that the previous debts can be considered to be settled. How about you use Sinuiju and Cheongjin Port to pay off your debts? The Soviet Union is a pragmatic country, and we are willing to sell you oil at two-thirds of the market price. Although the price of oil may be much higher than before, you think that at least your mechanized agriculture can be operated on a large scale again. ”

"What? Are we going to lease another Sinuiju? Chairman Kim shouted out uncontrollably, but when he saw Yanayev's expressionless face, he choked back what he wanted to say.

The general secretary looked very impatient, he waved his hand, and said disdainfully, "Then you can not lease, and we will not sell oil to you at a low price, just like that, think for yourself." ”

The port of Cheongjin has always been Yanayev's goal as an ice-free port, and Sinuiju is a new commercial port for future trade with China.

The Soviet Union was only on the defensive in the Far East, and he only needed to manage his own one-third of an acre of land, and it seemed that he had more than enough ambition to go south.

Yanayev can only do this, who calls himself a country full of holes, and it is not easy to mend the seams until now.

Chairman Kim was still hesitating, and the conditions put forward by the Soviet Union were somewhat harsh, because they were now not leasing a separate port, but still opening a treaty port. This is tantamount to cutting a piece of North Korea's heart and flesh at the same time as cutting a bloody knife.

"Just imagine, after this year, the Soviet Union will completely cut off the oil supplied to North Korea at low prices, and your agriculture will be completely desperate. And, of course, the heavy debt you carry, we haven't forgotten. This should be a fatal blow to North Korea. Can the high welfare of the people be maintained under such circumstances? The myth of socialism created by the Kim family will be shattered in an instant, and you will only become the laughing stock of others after all. This is not alarmism, this is a bloody fact. The Kim family may fall on the Korean Peninsula, just think about how they treated the Ceausescus. ”

The Soviet Union did not want the North Korean regime to fall, and it needed to use the power of the other side to contain American expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore, intimidation and beating are suitable to stop, and Yanayev will be just right.

A demagogic old wizard is slowly brainwashing those who are dominated by fear. He showed a depraved poverty to Chairman King and told him that this is your future.

Even the well-informed "Emperor of the Soil" would feel a chill down his spine after carefully thinking about Yanayev's words.

It's horrible.

"You choose, live or die."

Yanayev looked at him with an indifferent expression.

"Is it worth betting on the fate of the entire country of North Korea for the sake of two ports? Call them out to feed millions of people in this country, and you are the sun of the North Korean people, Chairman Kim. (To be continued.) )