Juche Ideology

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Introduction After the Korean War, North Korea was devastated. The USA had dropped more bombs on their country than what they had during the Second World War. The capital city of Pyongyang was completely destroyed and the people’s moral was very low after the failed attempt to unite the north with the south. The leader Kim Il Sung needed a plan to give the people of North Korea a brighter picture of what the future had in store. Kim Il Sung also wanted to increase his influence in the workers’ party as well as starting a cult of personality, in order to do so he had to have the support from the people and so he set forth the Juche ideology. This essay will explore the nature of Juche ideology; its relationship to Korean society; the similarities and differences from Marxist-Leninist thought and how it helped to consolidate Kim Il Sung’s absolute power in North Korea. Juche Ideology Juche is the official state ideology in North Korea and has been since 1972. The definition of Juche is self-reliance. Juche became …show more content…

Juche is deeply rooted in traditional Korean thinking as well as racial pride. According to the Juche ideology Koreans are the chosen people, Koreans are ethnically and racially pure and they are naturally xenophobic. You can see the national pride when looking at what Juche wants to accomplish, the Marxist-Leninist ideology stresses that eventually all social classes would merge into one egalitarian socialist utopia while in contrast the Juche ideology focuses on building the perfect Korean state and increasing Korean identity. The reason North Koreans feel such pride in their race and believe that they are the only pure ones in the world can be traced back to the people of Korea always being under the rule or influence of other nations such as Russia and Japan, and later on by USSR and Maoist

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