Mao emphasizes that the 12 fraternal socialist countries need to develop mutual understanding and resolutely follow the socialist road.
November 25, 1958
Conversation from [Mao Zedong's] Audience with Kim Il Sung
接见金日成时的讲话
（一九五八年十一月于武汉）
我们的党。我们的国家是巩固的，今天没有什么力量能够推翻我们这个国家，能够推翻我们这个党。我们好好的搞，是可以继续巩固的，但是我们还没有最后巩固，有可能我们来一个大失败，敌人全部的占领上海，占领武汉，占领北京，占领郑州这一条线，我们要退到西北西南山区，有这个可能。但是，我们保证能够经过几年的战斗．最后能够恢复我们中国，最后战败帝国主义。不能只看到现在发展顺利，我们随时要做好这个准备。
REMARKS FROM [MAO ZEDONG’S] AUDIENCE WITH KIM IL SUNG
(November 1958 in Wuhan)
Our party, our nation is strong and solid, and today there is no power that capable of overthrowing our country or overthrowing our party. If we keep doing things right, we can become stronger. However, we haven’t yet achieved the final consolidation, there is a possibility that we could suffer a big battlefield defeat, and the enemy could, along this line, occupy Shanghai, occupy Wuhan, occupy Beijing, as well as occupy Zhengzhou, and we would have to withdraw to the mountain areas in the Northwest and Southwest, there is this possibility. However, we can guarantee that in the end we would be able, after several years of struggle, in the end we would be able to restore our China, and ultimately defeat Imperialism. We can’t merely see the smooth development right now, we have to be prepared for this at all times.
Mao discusses the consolidation of mainland China and the need to defeat imperialism.
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Gang er si Wuhan daxue zongbu et al, eds., Mao Zedong sixiang wansui (Long Live Mao Zedong Thought), vol. 4 (1958-1960) (Wuhan, internal circulation, May 1968): 171. Translated by Simon Schuchat.
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