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It's just a single word, but it's hard to miss in North Korea. It's splashed across countless propaganda signs, seeded through dozens of state media reports, at the beating heart of emotional pop ...
The Juche is Kim Il-sung’s political thesis that states that the Korean masses are masters of the country’s development. Kim Il-sung ran North Korea as a personal dictatorship for 46 years; ...
Juche, as developed by Kim Il Sung and his cronies, was designed to solve both of these problems. The initial juche ideal of “self-reliance” centered on three elements: ...
The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...
North Korea Kim Jong Un stealing deceased grandfather's political title, North Korean observers say Kim Il Sung has traditionally been the only official to be referred to as 'president' ...
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2018, file photo, North Korean boys play snowball fight on Kim Il Sung Square as the Tower of The Juche Idea is seen in the background in Pyongyang, North Korea, where the ...
The word Juche is ubiquitous in North Korea, and while it's technically a political ideology, it can seem more like a religion because of its difficulty for many outsiders to grasp and its ...
At the 170-meter (560-foot) -tall Tower of Juche Idea, a soaring testament to the concept built in 1982 for Kim Il Sung’s 70th birthday, guide Choe Hye Ok has a ready definition at hand: “If ...