		North Korean Culture: Juche, Culture of North Korea, International Friendship Exhibition, Women in North Korea, Pyongyang Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15. ISBN 9781157669265
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Chapters: Juche, Culture of North Korea, International Friendship Exhibition, Women in North Korea, Pyongyang, Grand People's Study House, Children of the Secret State, Sungeoguk, Mass Games, Public Holidays in North Korea, Liberation Day, a State of Mind, Sea of Blood, North Korean Calendar, Committee for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries, Sek Studio. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Juche Idea (Korean pronunciation: approximately "joo-cheh") is the official state ideology of North Korea. It teaches that "man is the master of everything and decides everything, " and that the Korean people are the masters of Korea's revolution. Juche is a component of Kimilsungism, North Korea's political system. The word literally means "main body" or "subject"; it has also been translated in North Korean sources as "independent stand" and the "spirit of self-reliance". The first known reference to Juche was a speech given by Kim Il-sung on December 28, 1955, titled "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" in rejection of the policy of de-Stalinization (bureaucratic self-reform) in the Soviet Union. In this speech, Kim said that "Juche means Chosun's revolution" (Chosun being the traditional name for Korea). Hwang Jang-yeop, Kim's top adviser on ideology, discovered this speech later in the 1950s when Kim sought to develop his own version of Marxism-Leninism. The Juche Idea itself gradually emerged as a systematic ideological doctrine under the political pressures of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s. The word "Juche" also began to appear in untranslated form in English-language North Korean works from around 1965. Kim Il-sung outlined the three fundamental principles of Juche in his April 14, 1965, speech ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=225153

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