Juche

    The Juche idea was founded in reflection of the demand of the Juche era, a new era in history.

    President Kim Il Sung said.

    “The present era is the era of independence when the oppressed and humiliated people have emerged as masters of the world and are carving out their destinies independently and creatively.”

    The Juche era is the era in which the popular masses have emerged as masters of the world and their own destiny for the first time in history to advance history and shape out their destiny independently and creatively.

    The Juche era, a new era of history urgently demanded that the masses of the people who emerged as masters of history take their destiny into their hands and carve it out in an independent and creative manner.

    It was a particularly important issue for Korea to meet this demand of revolutionary practice in a new era because of the peculiarities of historical development and the complexity and arduousness of the revolution.

    In the past, flunkeyism was fostered and factional strife was severe in Korea due to the corrupt and incompetent feudal rulers in the feudal Joson dynasty and as a result, Korea was ruined. Nevertheless, the nationalists and self-styled Marxists in the 1920s followed the evil practice of flunkeyism and factional strife. They did not try to carry out the revolution by their own initiative but dreamed of achieving independence by depending on foreign forces. At that time, those who were allegedly engaged in the communist movement formed their own individual party groups and called frequently at the Comintern to gain its recognition. They also tended to imitate mechanically the established theories and experience of others, without taking into consideration of the historical conditions and specific realities in Korea where a colonial and semi-colonial society was in existence. Flunkeyism and dogmatism became very serious laying obstacles on the path of the revolution.

    The Korean revolution was the difficult and complicated revolution which had to implement simultaneously the task of the anti-imperialist national liberation revolution against the formidable Japanese imperialists and the task of the anti-feudal, democratic revolution. It was the arduous revolution that had to hew out an untrodden path.

    Such situation demanded more urgently that the Korean people should choose the road of revolution on the basis of their own independent conviction and judgment and open up the path of the revolution independently and creatively by relying on their strength.

    At that time when he was before 20s, President Kim Il Sung saw through the demand of the coming new era before anyone else and founded the Juche idea, a new revolutionary idea that reflects the demands correctly.

    As it was founded in correct reflection of the demand of the Juche era, a new era in history, the Juche idea has become the most scientific revolutionary ideology that enables the popular masses to carve out their destiny independently and creatively.