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Juche tul (45 moves)

 

In his encyclopaedia General Choi told us:

 

Juche is a philosophical idea that man is the master of everything and decides everything, in other words, the idea that man is the master of the world and his own destiny. It is said that this idea was rooted in Baekdu Mountain, which symbolizes the spirit of the Korean people. The diagram represents Baekdu Mountain.

 

What I’ve discovered

 

 

The Juche Idea was improvised in the 1950s by Kim, Il-Sung, and became the official state ideology of the Democratic People’s Rebublic of Korea (DPRK) in 1972.

Juche is often described as “self-reliance”. This can be interpreted as meaning that man is the master of his own self, his own world and his own destiny. Juche was devised as a political rather than a personal philosophy. Kim, Il-Sung explained:

“Establishing Juche means, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one’s own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one’s own brains, believing in one’s own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, and thus solving one’s own problems for oneself on one’s own responsibility under all circumstances.”

This philosophy is furthered by Kim Il Sung’s son in the first ever dynastic communist regime in North Korea.

 

 

 

For sources of this information please see the bibliography section of the site.

 

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Chon-Ji                                          Dan-Gun

 

Do-San                                           Won-Hyo

 

Yul-Gok                                         Joong-Gun

 

Toi-Gye                                         Hwa-Rang

 

Choong-Moo                               Kwang-Gae        

 

Po-Eun                                          Ge-Baek

 

Eui-Am                                          Choong-Jang

 

Ko-Dang                                        Sam-Il

 

Yoo-Sin                                          Choi-Yong

 

Yon-Gae                                        Ul-Ji

 

Moon-Moo                                   So-San

 

Se-Jong                                          Tong-Il

 

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(Juche)                Korean Terms

 

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