TRENDS in Communist Propaganda

D83670

TRENDS in Communist Propaganda

English

United States of America

ll AUGUST 1971

DC-Cam, D83670, 01 April 2025

FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE/United States of America

VOL. XXII, NO. 32

Foreign Broadcast Information Service P.O. Box 2604 Washington, D.C. 20013

Computer-Typing (tx), 45 pages

TRENDS in Communist Propaganda

1. Topics and Events Given Major Attention
2. SOVIET-U.S. RELATIONS
3. CHINA AND DPRK
4. KOREA
5. NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
6. MIDDLE EAST
7. INDIA
8. SOVIET BLOC RELATIONS
9. PRC INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Propaganda analysis report

U.S.-Soviet ties, End support to GVN, Bombing of DRV

This propaganda analysis report is based exclusively on material carried in communist broadcast and press media. It Is published by FBIS without coordination with other U.S. Government components.

I N D 0 C H I N A
Sihanouk's current mission to Pyongyang seems to have served Peking's purpose of reassuring its ally regarding the impact of President Nixon's visit to the PRC. At a rally for Sihanouk on the 6th, Kim Il-song hailed the planned visit as "a great victory" of the Chinese people and the world revolutionary forces and observed that the PRC government has made clear its intention to continue to support the revolutionary people. NCNA carried the text of Kim's speech, which Li Hsien-nien on the 9th callee'. "an important speech."
Continuing Chinese elite-level support for the PRG's peace proposal was voiced by Li Hsien-nien on the 9th in welcoming a DPRK economic delegation. Li also included an endorsement of Sihanouk's five-point declaration. and the Pathet Lao's five-point proposal while again calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from all of Indochina totally and unconditionally.

CHINA AND DPRK
KIM IL-SOOG ENDORSES NIXON TRIP TO PEKING AS VICTOR FOR PRC
Prince Sihanouk’s visit to North Korea. occasioned Pyongyang’s first comment on President Nikon's projected visit to the PRC, an endorsement of Pekins's demarche by Kim Il-song in a. speech at a 6 August rally for Sihanouk. The latter, in his 24th "message to the Khmer nation" on 30 July, had made the drat move ln explaining that the invitation to the President did not mean any wavering of Peking's support for its allies. KCNA transmitted Sihanouk's message on 31 July. The sequence of events suggests that Sihanouk's mission may have been designed at least in part to convey Peking's reassurances and to put on a show of solidarity. Peking disseminated the text of Sihanouk’s message and of Kim's speech, in the process carrying PRC media's only mentions of the invitation to the President since the original announcement. Li Hsien-nien, speaking at a banquet for a visiting DPRK economic delegation on 9 August, applauded Kim for having delivered an "important speech" on the 6th in which he made "a penetrating analysis of the current international situation." Li vowed that the Chinese "will always unite" with the Korean, Indochinese, and other Asian people to oppose U.S. and Japanese "schemes of aggression."

Peking had used a PEOPLE'S DAILY Commentator article on 3 August pegged to Sihanouk's message to reassure its allies of continuing support despite developments in Sino-U.S. relations. The Commentator article, while carefully skirting the subject or the invitation to President Nixon, expressed support for Sihanouk 1s claim that the Indochina question can be solved only by the Indochinese people themselves and for his denunciation of an alleged U.S. "plot 11 to convene a new Geneva conference

Until it disseminated Sihanouk's message, Pyongyang had remained silent about the President's projected visit but, unlike Hanoi, refrained from comment implicitly critical of the move. Like Hanoi, Pyongyang never reported the April visit of the American table tennis team to the PRC, Kim's endorsement of President Nixon's visit, seconded in a NODONG SINMUN editorial on 8 August, hailed the event as "a great victory" of the Chinese people and of the world revolutionary forces, implicitly including the North Korean, Kim sought to portray the visit in tough anti-U.S. ·terms, claiming that the President is going to Peking--as the United State went to Panmun Jom-"with a white flag" and that the visit will be not a "march of a victor" but a "trip of the defeated.” According to Kim, the Projected visit shows that Washington’s “hostile policy” toward the PRC for more than 20 years has become bankrupt and that the United States has succumbed to the pressure of the world revolutionary forces. Expressing support for Peking's diplomatic drive, both Kim and the editorial perceived an "irresistible trend" in the world today to recognize the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China and to establish diplomatic relations with it.

Kim may have been alluding to the misgivings expressed by Moscow--end perhaps responding to Hanoi's disquiet--when he noted in his speech that the invitation to the President "has aroused a wide variety of public opinion in the world today," but he did not elaborate. (He made a remark more pointedly critical of the Soviets in another context when he said it was natural that those countries which "truly support the national liberation struggle" should recognize Sihanouk's government and reject the "Lon Nol-Sirik Matak clique," an allusion to Moscow's failure to recognize Sihanouk's RGNU and its maintenance of its embassy in Phnom Penh).

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