Kim Il Sung and Zhang Wei Hua: A Life-and-Death Bond Across Borders

Author: Lü Minghui
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Publishing Date: 2002-04-01
Features: In the 1920s, the passionate young Korean Kim Il-sung came to China's Northeast Fusong County to study and became close friends with the well-to-do Chinese youth Zhang Wei-hua. Their shared aspirations led them to join the anti-Japanese movement, forging a bond of hardship and camaraderie in the perilous struggle. A traitor betrayed Zhang Wei-hua to the Japanese invaders, attempting to lure him as bait to capture Kim Il-sung. Zhang Wei-hua resolutely took poison and died, foiling the enemy's plot. The sentimentally attached Kim Il-sung Chairman always cherished the will of Zhang Wei-hua who sacrificed for him. After years of diligent search, he finally found the descendants of the martyrs and warmly invited them to visit North Korea multiple times as state guests, leaving behind a touching story of the life-and-death friendship between the Chinese and North Korean peoples.