“The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported.”

— Kim Il-sung

Quoted in Kim Il Sung, Master of Leadership (1976) by Takagi Takeo

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