The word is Juche (pronounced ju-chay), and while it's technically a political ideology, it can seem more like a religion in its ability to inspire devotion among North Koreans and its ubiquity as ...

And the tool the state has used to convince of them of these ideas is a unique official philosophy called “juche” (pronounced JOO-chay). Juche, which roughly translates as “self-reliance ...

The lower the stock market sinks and the more tenuous his reputation for an economic Midas touch becomes, the more the White House sounds like it’s promoting what we might call “Trump juche.” ...

It’s just a single word, but it’s hard to miss in North Korea. It’s splashed across countless propaganda signs, seeded through dozens of state media reports, at the beating heart of ...

“Cultivation of the comic outlook on life could have a very damaging effect on people’s attitude toward the Juche Idea.” North Korea even maintains a sideline in crude political ...

Juche, meaning “self-reliance” in Korean, is the name of the country’s official ideology, which combines Stalinist political principles, Confucian social values and ethnic Korean nationalism.

The ideas of that noted film theorist and critic Kim Jong-il are the subject of "The Juche Idea," experimental filmmaker Jim Finn's satirical effort set in North Korea. By The Associated Press The ...

Year 1 of the Juche Calendar (named after “Juche Thought,” the regime’s official pseudo-ideology) was 1912, the birth year of the state’s founder, Kim Il-sung, whose birthday was ...

Movie Review | 'The Juche Idea' By Mike Hale Jim Finn, maker of “artist films” (his own phrase, only partly ironic), will confound most moviegoers with “The Juche Idea,” his latest short ...

Stopping in Belarus and North Korea, Juche Travel’s upcoming DPRK Aviation Tour, which runs May 6-13, offers opportunities to fly on a variety of rare aircraft. “Both countries are considered ...