The argument of this article is that far from being encouraged by the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, Kim Il Sung visited Beijing in 1975 not with the hope of bringing about the violent unification of the Korean Peninsula but rather to reaffirm China’s security commitment to the country. Ultimately, however, Kim Il Sung’s visit to Beijing led to the strengthening of the US defense commitment toward South Korea. This article takes the view that the communization of Indochina further raised North Korea’s perceptions of a threat to its security. North Korea was not hoping for the end of the Vietnam War but rather the continuation of that war. This was because North Korea was concerned that the end of the Vietnam War would lead to the redeployment of American troops onto the Korean Peninsula and interrupt its own plans for withdrawal of American troops in South Korea.