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Stamps, calendars and other state publications recently issued by North Korea have also abandoned the juche year-counting system, which sets its first year as 1912, when Kim Il-sung was born.

Just days before, they had placed North Korea in the year 113, since the Juche system begins with the birth of the country’s first leader, Kim Il-sung, in 1912.

He also helped install Kim Il Sung’s long-standing principle of self-reliance known as juche and Kim Jong Il’s military-first ideal known as songun.

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