Juche

juche juché English Etymology en ko 주체(主體) self-reliance a subject. Pronunciation en /ˈd͡ʒuːt͡ʃeɪ/ en En-ca-Juche.mp3 CA en uːt͡ʃeɪ 2 Noun - The core component of Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, the state ideology of North Korea. en ko 1982 w:Kim Il Sung On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm Kim Il Sung – Works 9 402-403 28 December 1955 What is Juche in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. https://web.archive.org/web/20260929164033/https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm 29 September 2026 en 5 April 1983 10 March 1983 Kim I-hun Lecture Marks Formation of Peasants Union Korean Affairs Report 275 https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-83193/ Pyongyang KCNA w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 5722870 N. Korea/Politics and Government 134–135 https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-83193/page/n144/ The Peasants Union, he said, was a chuche-type revolutionary organization the basic mission of which was to struggle against Japanese imperialism and landlords and for the country's liberation and independence, with the revolutionary idea of the great leader as its unswerving guideline, and a revolutionary mass organization embracing broad segments of the peasant masses with the poor peasants and hired farmhands as the hardcore. on en Don Baker Korean Spirituality 2008 University of Hawaii Press https://books.google.com/books?id=eHuB8NTk3ewC&pg=PA147&dq=%22Juche%22&hl=en&cd=33&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Juche%22&f=false 978-0-8248-6326-5 147 Despite its rejection of theism and its political origins, there are several reasons for labeling Juche ideology a form of spirituality. According to Juche teachings, human beings only exist within societies. en Brian Reynolds Myers B.R. Myers The Cleanest Race The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—And Why It Matters 2011 2010 Melville House Brooklyn, New York 978-1-933633-91-6 46-47 Though Juche Thought is enshrined in the constitution as one of the country's guiding principles, the regime has never shown any indication of subscribing to its universal-humanist bromides: “man is the master of all things,” “people are born with creativity and autonomy,” etc. I do not mean to imply that if an ideology is not lived up to, it is ipso facto a sham. But Juche is not even professed in earnest, and no wonder; its central notion of the masses' mastery of their fate runs counter to the sacrosanct notion of a uniquely vulnerable child race in the Leader's protective care. The pseudo-doctrine of Juche continues to serve its purpose all the same. It enables the regime to lionize Kim Il Sung as a great thinker, provides an impressive label for whatever policies it considers expedient, and prevents dissidents from judging policy on the government's own ostensible terms. en w:Fyodor Tertitskiy w:Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung 2025 C. Hurst & Co. London 9781911723547 161 Beginning in 1966, North Korea's internal and external propaganda started to promote the word [Juche] with extreme vigour. The problem was that Kim Il-sung never received a higher education and was not particularly well versed in any branch of philosophy, including Marxism. For him, Juche was little more than a means to assert North Korea's independence from Moscow. And the system of total obedience to the Leader he was creating prevented his underlings in the ideological departments from reformulating it into a more intelligible form. Thus, when it came to explaining what ‘Juche’ thought actually is, North Korean ideologues limited themselves to just one sentence: ‘Man is the master of all things’, repeated and rephrased over and over. Derived terms en Juche Korea Jucheism Jucheist Translations North Korean self-reliance state ideology Arabic: ar زُوتْشِيَّة f Bulgarian: bg чучхе f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 主體思想 zhǔtǐ sīxiǎng, cmn 主體 zhǔtǐ Czech: cs Čučche f Esperanto: eo Ĵuĉe Estonian: et chuch'e Finnish: fi juche-aate French: fr Juche m, fr Juché m, fr Djoutché m Georgian: ka ჩუჩხე German: de Chuch'e f Hebrew: he צ׳וּצֶ׳ה f chúche Hindi: hi जूचे Hungarian: hu csúcse, hu dzsúcse Japanese: ja 主体 しゅたい, shutai, ja チュチェ chuche, ja 主体思想 しゅたいしそう, shutai-shisō, ja チュチェ思想 chuche-shisō Korean: ko 주체(主體), ko 주체사상(主體思想) Lithuanian: lt Čučhė Macedonian: mk Џуче f Persian: fa جوچه Polish: pl dżucze n Portuguese: pt juche m, pt djutchê m Punjabi: pa ਜੂਚੇ m f Romanian: ro Ciuce Russian: ru чучхе́ f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Џуче f Latin: sh Džuče f Spanish: es juche m Turkish: tr Cuçe Ukrainian: uk чучхе f Vietnamese: vi tư tưởng chủ thể (vi 思想主體), vi chủ thể (vi 主體) See also en Kimilsungism Kimjongilism Anagrams en cehju Cheju en Communism Ideologies Juche Nationalism North Korea Leftism