Thoughts of the Great Leader

This document has recently become available and shows that The Great Leader was not as stupid as many maintain. More correspondence available shows that the USSR were totally opposed to providing him with the capacity for manufacturing nuclear weapons.

Report on the Visit by Erich Honecker to the DPRK,
18-21 October 1986
[Source: Foundation Archive of the Parties and Mass Organizations in the Federal
Archive [Berlin] (SAPMO-BA), DY 30, 2460. Translated by Grace Leonard.
Full text was published in CWHIP Bulletin 14/15, Issue 14/15, pp. 65-68]
[in the course of a far-ranging discussion with GDR leader Erich Honecker, whom Kim Il
Sung referred to as his “best friend,” Kim stated]

"As to the situation in South Korea, Comrade Kim Il Sung stated that the anti- American mood has grown even more among the population, and in religious circles.
But no rapid change in relations among the powers is to be expected.The US rejected proposals made by the DPRK for reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula because it [would] lose its reason for remaining in South Korea if the initiatives were realized.

Comrade Kim Il Sung affirmed that the DPRK does not intend to attack SouthKorea, nor could it. More than 1,000 US nuclear warheads are stored in South Korea,ostensibly for defense, and it would take only two of them to destroy the DPRK. The DPRK supports the proposals made by Comrade Gorbachev in Vladivostok and Reykjavik. Many problems could not be solved with South Korea. Progress in relations between the Soviet Union and the US would also help to resolve the Korea problem."