Ideologies / Juchist / Kim Il-sung
§ The minds · 1912–1994 · North Korea · Eternal President
Kim Il-sung
The author of Juche
Self-reliance as state religion.
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The founder of North Korea, whose Juche doctrine of national self-reliance became the ideological core of the most closed and personalised totalitarian state on earth. Recorded as taxonomy, not endorsement.
social
Revolutionary modernism fused with nationalist tradition.
economic
Autarkic command economy built on self-reliance ('Juche').
governance
Founded a hereditary totalitarian state with an absolute leader cult.
Notable for
- Founded the DPRK
- Authored Juche ideology
- Established a hereditary dynasty
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