Abstract

The economic aid from the socialist camp including the Soviet Union was of huge help in North Korea"s post-war recovery and its process of socialist industrialization policies. But there were some points that both side could not agree with each other. In the economic aspect, socialist solidarity is required for the integration of each state"s economic plans based on trade. Entering the middle 1950s, the socialist theory of the international division of labor was established more clearly around the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Relatively less developed nations in the socialist camp including North Korea resisted the principle of the international division of labor and put a priority on their industrialization. In 1958, North Korea made it"s the First Five-Year Plan containing prospects for its future industrial constructions, and it was accompanied by the decision of the Soviet Union to support the plan. North Korea was able to get the content of support they wanted in some areas. Although it acted in concert with the atmosphere of the socialist camp yet, North Korea began to make its position.

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