To the mid-fifties cult of personality "small leader" Kim Il Sung largely copied the cult of personality "great leader" Stalin. Debunking of Stalin was fraught with mortal danger to Kim Il Sung, as the parallel was too obvious. Kim Il Sung was afraid that this similarity may take advantage of its detractors that can easily try to remove him from power, accusing it in spreading the cult of personality.

In June 1956, Kim Il Sung made a trip to the USSR. In Moscow, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders had made him advice "about the necessity of overcoming the cult of personality in North Korea, the development of inner-party democracy"

Mao from the outset extremely negative attitude toward Khrushchev's liberal policies and, in particular, for his thesis about the peaceful coexistence of the two systems.

The concept was is that, although between the countries of the capitalist and the socialist camp, there antagonistskie class contradictions, these contradictions do not always have to be resolved by military force. The ideology of peaceful co-existence in many ways contradicted the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the principle of antagonism between the two systems, insists on the irreversibility of the world revolutionary process. So peaceful existence has been interpreted as a form of class struggle. The Soviet state in every possible way to develop and maintain the pacifist and anti-war movements in the Western countries and solidarity with the Soviet concept of peaceful coexistence.