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It was not by chance that the DPRK government delegation, in its tour of the USSR and the countries of people’s democracy in 1956, ended up taking a stop socialist Albania. As Comrades Enver Hoxha and Kim Il Sung note in their speeches, their histories were inexplicably linked, two exploited peoples who had to fight imperialist colonization and intervention, never losing heart, yearning for a new free tomorrow and winning it. Their visit from Tirana to Vlora and back in just a few days was filled with memories of the Albanian workers and peasants greeting wholeheartedly the Korean comrades and wishing them the greatest successes in reunification and socialist construction, hosting them in their homes and gifting them produce from their co-operative farm, holding mass rallies and shouting such slogans as “Long live Kim Il Sung!” The leaders affirmed shared principles on everything and confirmed mutual respect and support between the two countries — ensuring that they would always remain allied in the anti-imperialist and communist struggles. It was indeed a mission of friendship which, in spite of the tide at the time, solidified unity and proletarian internationalism.