Juche is a 
Totalitarian, economically 
left-wing to far-left ideology inhabiting the top center of the 
authoritarian left quadrant. He believes in a highly centralized state, self-sufficiency, and a strong devotion to his country's leadership. He believes the best way to achieve socialism is through strength and self-sustainability.
History
The term Juche (Chosŏn'gŭl: 주체사상 Hancha: 主體思想) is a Korean word meaning "self-reliance". The ideology was first mentioned by Kim Il Sung in a 1955 speech. In a speech of his a decade later, Kim Il Sung developed the ideology further, developing its three main principles, those being economic self-sustenance, political independence, and self-reliance in national defense. The ideology was further developed by Kim Il Sung in various other speeches and writings.
Juche has been the ruling ideology of North Korea, formally called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), since its conception. It, being the governing philosophy, has greatly impacted North Korean governance, leading and contributing to their highly isolationist, nationalistic and militaristic tendencies.
Kim Il-sung did not intend for Juche to only influence Korea, and believed the ideology to have the potential for international influence. Starting in 1976, the DPRK has organized multiple seminars on Juche outside of their own country.
Kim Il-Sung
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Kim Jong-il
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Kim Jong-un
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Juchesasangpa
Juche Faction or Juchesasangpa (Chosŏn'gŭl: 주체사상파, Hancha: 主體思想派
Revised Romanization: Juche sasang pa, McCune–Reischauer: Chuch'e sasang pa,) or Korean Abb. Jusapa (Chosŏn'gŭl: 주사파,
Hancha: 主思派, Revised Romanization: Jusapa, McCune–Reischauer: Chusapa) was a political faction within South Korea's student movements that supported the North Korean political ideology known as 
Juche. It was most prominent during the pro-democratic demonstrations of the 1980s, and was part of the wider National Liberation Faction.
The Juchesasangpa Movement started around early 1986 among the Undongkwon participating in student movements and labor movements. A book written by Kim Young-hwan called "The Letter of One Labor Activist Sending to All Our Fellow Young Students" with the pseudonym "Kang Chol", also known as "kangcholsoshin" (강철서신, Kang cheol's letter), was considered as the textbook of the movement among participants. The movement was also called the National Liberation faction (NL) because it emphasized the "national liberation" of South Korea based on the theory of North Korean revolution called "The Theory of Revolution of People's Democracy and National Liberation" (민족해방 민중민주주의혁명론). However, "National Liberation faction" can also mean groups who did not accept Juche but with the same perception that the people of South Korea should be liberated. and reunified under Juche and the Kim Dynasty itself.
Beliefs
Main Principles
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Songun
Songun is a doctrine where the 
military is viewed as the most important part of the nation and thus is the most powerful organ of the state that gained presence after Kim Il-sung's death in 1994. It is based upon 4 principles made by Kim Il-sung that are to arm the entire population, fortify the state, train every soldier to become a cadre, and to modernize the entire military sector. The government puts the military as the top priority in resource allocation and for consideration in government policy and decision making.
Great Leader Theory
Unlike 
Maoism and 
Marxism-Leninism, Juche rejects historical materialism and its assertion that the development of productive forces are the driving force of history. It instead believes that the driving force of history are people and their ideas and that there needs to be a great leader to instill the right ideas into the people. It also believes that the great leader should hold supreme authority since they are believed to be responsible for the well-being of the entire country.
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism
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Personality
He believes that national unity can be achieved only through self-reliance and national independence. He loves his nukes and is not hesitant to flex them. Despite being strongly atheist, he considers himself to be a god and acts as such, to the extent that outsiders believe him to be theocratic.
Stylistic Notes
- Anti-religious but believes himself to be a god.
- Will get very upset and violent if ridiculed.
- Temperamental, and will be set off by even the slightest disrespect.
- Launches nukes at anybody he disagrees with, although the nukes are cheaply made and don't always work.
- Oppressive in the streets but dirty in the sheets with hot North Korean soldier girls.
How to Draw
The design for Juche is simply the flag of the Workers' Party of Korea. The WPK is the dominant political party in the DPRK, of which Juche is the governing ideology.
Drawing Juche is fairly straightforward:
- Draw a ball
- Fill the ball with red
- Add the WPK symbol in yellow (Add a Hammer, Writing Brush and Korean Sickle, symbolising the workers, intellectuals and farmers respectively)
- Add the eyes and you're done!
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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| Red | #D40000 | 212, 0, 0 | |
| Yellow | #FFCC00 | 255, 204, 0 | |
Relations
동지 (Comrades)
Stalinism - You helped me defeat filthy imperialists and you influenced me. Also, strong state AND Socialism in one country? What can I say except BASED. What do you mean you threw away the latter in 1939 by invading Poland?
Conservative Socialism - Me but less nationalist and less communist. For some reason, he tries to avoid me.
Posadism - You might be a dirty Trot but your love for nukes is neat.
National Communism "To be a true revolutionary, a communist, one must be an ardent patriot, a true nationalist.” - Kim Jong-Il
Castroism - My only friend in the west.
Autarky - Gotta P R O T E C C.- Songun - Military First!
Isolationism - We don't need help. I am self-reliant for a reason, such as having my own internet and electricity access. Ingore that I lack both of them.
Totalitarianism - Thank you for teaching me how to integrate my thoughts into every aspect of society!
Pagan Theocracy - I might technically be an atheist but Korean paganism is based.
Mandelaism - I supported the ANC in its fight against apartheid. Just wish you didn't become such a huge lib during your presidency.
Khomeinism - I supported him in the Iran-Iraq war.
Black Nationalism - The Black Panther Party supported me, and I supported them.
Ho Chi Minh Thought and 
Honeckerism - My more moderate Vietnamese and German counterparts. I wish I could unite Korea like the former united Vietnam. It’s such a shame that the GDR fell. Rip Honecker the legend.
Agorism - I have allowed black markets to flourish since the 1990s just for the economic survival of the country.
Cult of Personality - We worship our Great Supreme Leader
Necrocracy 
- Glory to our leader, even in death!
White Nationalism - Thanks For White Juche
프레너미 (Frenemies)
Dengism - Thanks for covering my ass but why did you pull the Chinese aid in the early 1990s? (also stop reeeeing at my counterfeit money!!!!)
Trumpism - We tight, but please don't rain "fire and fury" on me.
Monarcho-Socialism - Not the same but a lot of people seem to think we are.
Mladorossism - Even better because he is more nationalist and traditionalist. But imagine being a christcuck? What do you mean I should embrace monarchy?
Anarcho-Capitalism - Capitalist pig but he too loves nukes, hates taxes and smokes weed.
Mercantilism - Enriching the state is good, capitalism and imperialism are bad.
Maoism - A great ally and supporter of my small nation, but stop calling me "revisionist" and "idealist".
State Atheism - Fuck religion but let me try to LARP as a god to my citizens. It's a way to keep them in check.
Radical Feminism - Agrees that pornographers must be executed, but disagrees with my Kippumjo although they joined the squad "voluntarily".
Social Authoritarianism & 
Religious Socialism - The Korean Social Democratic Party and Korea Buddhist Federation are pawnsin my united coalition. We're totally a democratic country. Also don't listen to them if they say they don't know me.
Mediacracy - Stop saying I'm a repressive totalitarian state with no free speech! Anyways, we would like to sponsor our state-controlled media from the Korean Central Broadcasting Committee, and I did allow foreign sympathizers (Explore DPRK for example) to broadcast our nation.
Anti-Japaneseism - Fighting Japanese invaders is great, but your lack of a state is beyond revolting. And you're not a fellow supporter of my regime, how sad.
Hoxhaism - He liked me at first, but our relationship deteriorated over time. We both abolished taxes too.
Saddamism - I liked you at first until the Iran-Iraq war.
Fujimorism - While he's a filthy capitalist pig like 
Neoconservatism, I gave him weapons to fight 
Gonzalo Thought.
Marxism - You have good ideas, but overall you are too internationalist for my liking and not authoritarian enough. That’s why I removed you from my state ideology recently.
Market Socialism - We share similar economic ideas recently, but he's against my protectionism and totalitarianism.
Kim Dae-jung Thought and 
Moon Jae-in - My relationship with the South experienced a temporary thaw under both of you, but you are still too much of a lib and American puppet for my liking.
Anti-Fascism - We both like Kim Il-Sung, but stop calling me "Red Fash" already!
Fourth Theory - Very based, although you are too fascist and religious for my liking.
Hive-Mind Collectivism - How can we have a supreme leader if everyone is the same?
Titoism - "The inclusion of the Yugoslav Tito Group in the socialist camp and the international proter revolutionary movement weakened the unity of the socialist camp and the international proter revolutionary movement. The Yugoslav Tito Group betrayed Marxism, Leninism. He separated himself from the socialist camp and the international proter revolutionary movement. Proter of various countries. It opposes the statements of the representatives of the revolutionary and workers' parties and the statements of the consultation meetings. It engages in separatist activities against the international proter revolutionary movement." -Kim Il-Sung -On Modern Revisionism Page 9 (But you were still a fellow member of the Non-Aligned Movement and well, it's complicated...)
Khrushchevism - "In the past, vile revisionists like Khrushchev, who emerged in the international communist movement, seriously undermined communist morality. Khrushchev slandered Stalin, giving the world a negative impression that the communists were unaware of their vanguard in the revolution and were fighting each other." -Kim Jong-Il - Socialism is Science Page 56 (But I also remained neutral during the Soviet-Chinese split and tried to maintain good relations with both countries)
적들 (Enemies)
Capitalism - This is incompatible with socialism.
Showa Statism - Evil Japanese imperialist. Thanks for teaching me the value of ethnic nationalism and autocracy.- Neoconservatism - I'll nuke you someday, imperialist scum.
Neoliberalism - You can't touch me.- Gonzalo Thought - You think I'm revisionist? Fuck you. That's why I gave the Peruvian government weapons to fight you.
Christian Theocracy - Imperialist propaganda! But thanks for giving me inspiration for my cult
Zionism - Israel is an imperialist satellite!
Ilminism - My arch-enemy, I would've ended you back in 1950, if it wasn't for those western imperialists. Also, they're the ones who started the war, not me.
Trotskyism - Dirty backstabber.
State Liberalism - You are literally everything I despise (except for Totalitarianism). DIE!
Multiculturalism - A strange farce to hamstring the essential characters of the Korean nation and seek for “multiracial society” is now being held in south Korea. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today runs a signed commentary, which censures the farce as an unpardonable bid to negate the homogeneity of the nation, make south Korea multiracial and Americanize it. To deny the peculiarity and advantages of the homogeneous nation now that dominationism and colonialism are posing a threat to the destiny of weak nations is a treacherous act of weakening the spirit of the nation, the commentary says, and goes on: The south Korean pro-American traitorous forces advocating the theory of “multiracial society” are riffraffs who have not an iota of national soul, to say nothing of the elementary understanding of the view on the nation and social and historic development.
Monetarism - Haha printing counterfeit money go brrr.[2]
Further Information
Literature
- On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work by
Kim Il-sung. - The Selected Works of Kim Il Sung by Kim Il-sung
- On the Juche Idea by Kim Jong-il.
- On Correctly Understanding the Originality of Kimilsungism by Kim Jong-il.
Wikipedia
- Juche
- Kim Il-sung
- North Korea
- Songun
- Kim Dynsasty
- Constitution of North Korea
- Politics of North Korea
- Economy of North Korea
- Juchesasangpa
- Workers' Party of Korea
- Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea
- Korean People's Army
- Juche Tower
- North Korean Cult of Personality
- South Korean´s National Liberation Front Preparation Committee
Articles
- Juche, the state ideology that makes North Koreans revere Kim Jong Un, explained
- 'Juche' rules North Korean propaganda, but what does it mean?
- North Korea’s Surprisingly Robust Healthcare System
- South Korea Is No Country for Young People
- A Look at South Korean Plastic Surgery
- S. Korea's senior citizens suffer high rate of relative poverty: report
- The salt mines, "hell on earth" for the disabled in South Korea
- The islands of abuse: Inside South Korea's slave farms for the disabled
Videos
- Juche Ideology
- What is Juche?
- We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut
- Why is North Korea so weird?
- Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)
- HUMANITY Daily life in North Korea My Brothers and Sisters in the North
- Most Depressing Country?
- Socialist Country DPRK Documentary | English
- DPRK Reality Check: Human Rights
- The Truth About Leaders and Leadership in the DPRK
Community
Gallery
Portraits and Artwork
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Credit:
TheLegend2T, Source
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Old portrait, by Mori
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Juche with crown, by Nytuelo
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White Juche
Comics
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Credit: u/Left-Alex; Source
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Credit to u/BiologicalFunfare
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