Tag Archives: Socialism

The basic requirement is to regard it as the supreme principle to defend man’s independent demands and interests in all activities and to subordinate all to the realization of man’s independent aspirations and demands. President Kim Il Sung said: Man is the most precious being in the world. Everything in the world has value only […]

The Juche-oriented viewpoint and attitude to the world means approaching the world from the viewpoint of interests of man and dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of the activities of man. The Juche-oriented viewpoint and attitude to the world firstly means approaching the world from the viewpoint of […]

The law is that the world is developed by the volitional action and role of man, in the direction of serving man and according to the development of man. General Secretary Kim Jong Il said: The material nature of the world and its universal laws of motion having been clarified, the Juche idea presented the […]

The Juche viewpoint on the world is that the world is dominated and transformed by man. General Secretary Kim Jong Il said: That the world is dominated and reshaped by man is a new viewpoint on the world in relation to man. This means, in a word, that the nature and society become the world […]

Answer to the question by the delegation of the Russian Study Organization of the Juche Idea: After liberation Korea had a few engineers and professors, you said. Then, who taught students in Kim Il Sung University after liberation? Immediately after liberation Korea had no colleges and few intellectuals due to the Japanese imperialist policy of […]

Answer to questions by Francis Lyimo, Vice-Director General of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea: The agricultural cooperativization in the DPRK was carried out in a short span of only 4-5 years after the Korean War by the original idea and wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung. With the […]

Answer to the Question by Millen Ryubomirov Illiev, a Member of the Bulgarian Study Group of the Juche Idea: How does the Juche idea consider the concept of the popular masses? The popular masses mean a social collective combined with commonness of independent demands and creative activities with the main stress on the working people. […]

Independence, creativity and consciousness take shape and develop socially and historically. Kim Jong Il said: Independence, creativity and consciousness are man’s social qualities which take shape and develop socially and historically. This means that they are not inborn attributes. Of course man has a developed organism. However, his developed physical organs and their special functions […]

Independence, creativity and consciousness, the essential characteristics of man are closely related with each other and displayed in man’s activity in an integrated manner. Independence is closely related with creativity. Kim Jong Il said that without independence creativity cannot be fully displayed nor independence can be properly realized without creativity. Independence is a factor which […]

Consciousness and the conscious are closely related but never the same one. Leader Kim Jong Il said that the conscious is the sophisticated function of man’s brain, the most developed of his physical organs. The brain plays the central role in the activity of human life, and the conscious which is the function of the […]

Kim Jong Il said: Consciousness is an attribute of social man, which determines all his endeavors to understand and reshape the world and himself. Consciousness is one of the essential attributes of man, social being along with independence and creativity. With consciousness man understands the world and the law of its movement and transforms and […]

Creativity and creative ability should be correctly distinguished in their close relationship. President Kim Il Sung said: Along with independence, man has creativeness. This means that he has the creative power to transform nature and society in accordance with his will and wishes. The creative power is the fundamental guarantee for a man to be […]

Kim Jong Il said: Creativity is an attribute of social man who transforms the world and shapes his destiny purposefully and consciously. Creativity is one of the essential attributes of man, social being. With creativity man transforms nature and society to be more useful and beneficial to him by changing the old and creating the […]

This means independence is the most valuable for a social being. Kim Jong Il said: Independence is the life and soul of man, the social being. When independence is referred to as man’s life and soul, it means social and political integrity. Independence is the basic quality of a social being and it is the […]

This means that independence is the characteristics of a social man who leads an independent life with consciousness of independence. Kim Jong Il said: Only when a man has the consciousness of independence can he conduct conscious activity to conquer nature and actively struggle against the oppressors who encroach and trample upon his independence. Independence […]

When we say that the term social being is used as the original meaning that defines the essential qualities of man in the Juche philosophy, we have to understand the social being with a meaning that the essential qualities of man are social ones. Leader Kim Jong Il said: Systematizing the Juche philosophy, we used […]