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; ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the North Korean calendar, this year is not 2017 but “Juche 106” — because the first year of Kim Il Sung’s life is officially “Juche 1.” (Juche is the North Korean word for “self ...

North Korea has not officially designated Kim's birthday, known to be Jan. 8, for special celebrations, though the birthdays of late state founder Kim Il-sung and his successor, Kim Jong-il, have ...

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 ...