Juche

[Red October]

what are the major points and tenets of Juche and has it ever been tried outside the DPRK?

[combat]

Hopefully not!! It's the ideology of the parasites, the bureaucrates in power in this deformed workers' state. We marxists call for a political revolution in North Korea.

[Janus]

what are the major points and tenets of Juche
Well, it calls for the people's will to be expressed through the achievement of communism and for individual independence in thought and self-reliance. However, the people must at the same time be absolutely loyal to the Worker's Party of Korea and the leader Kim Jong-Il.


has it ever been tried outside the DPRK?
The DPRK has certainly tried to influence other nations ideologically yet it has never been successful.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Juche has not been tied outside of North Korea although Mao believed in the basic principles of Juche according to MIM.

Combat is right though, a political revolution is necessary. Look at Kim Jong-il! He dines on fancy food, drives sports cars, and lives the high life while his people enjoy none of the regular benefits of socialism that have been experience in most other socialist countries.

[BobKKKindle$]

The Primary concept of Juche is self reliance, in economic, military, and political terms. Economic Self-Reliance means building an independent Socialist Economy which does not rely on other nations for any substantial imports of consumer commodities, capital goods, or raw materials. In reality however, North Korea is reliant on the People's Republic of China for 60% of its fuel, without which the economy would undergo an even greater collapse. After the fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea began to undergo many economic problems and a contraction in Gross Domestic Product because it had grown to rely on subsidised imports from the USSR.

Military Self-reliance (Songun) means not leaving the Nation's defensive capabilities in the hands of others. THis became an important tenet of Juche during the 1970s, when the USSR and the Warsaw pact recognize South Korea's national sovereignty, and refused to include the DPRK within the USSR's Nuclear Umbrella. As a result, North Korea began to consider developing Nuclear Armaments and Increaisng defense expenditure in order to independently resist Amerikan Imperialism.

Political Self Reliance means not allowing other Nations to dictate political direction. North Korea is Unique in being one of the few (if not the only) countries not to join one of the major Socialist Powers (PRC/USSR) after the Sino-Soviet Split in 1968.

I dont think its fair to make judgements about North Korea as a 'feudal state'. North Korea represents an enduring struggle against the attempts of the Amerikan Imperialist to further their global political and military hegemony and establish the Pacific Asian North East as a Unilateral Area of Influence. In the face of tremendous adversity; American Economic Sanctions, The Collapse of the USSR, and high levels of defense expenditure requird to defend the DPRK; North Korea has survived and continues to represent a struggle which we should value and uphold.


In the field of defense construction, too, we have strengthened our defence capabilities to such an extent that we are in a position to firmly defend the security of our country and our socialist gains, even in the complex situation existing today, on the basis of our own strength. - Great leader Kim Il Sung


By stretching out its tentacles of aggression all over the world, U.S. imperialism has become the common enemy of all peoples of the world