At the 170-meter (560-foot) -tall Tower of Juche Idea, a soaring testament to the concept built in 1982 for Kim Il Sung’s 70th birthday, guide Choe Hye Ok has a ready definition at hand: “If ...

I think they view them as brothers who are being misled or oppressed by a sort of idiot government. Coming down from the Juche Tower in Pyongyang, I asked a man in his 30s if he thought he’d see ...

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.

Explore Pyongyang, the city designed to serve the Kim dynasty’s vision of a ‘Communist paradise.’ From pastel-painted Soviet housing blocks to the iconic Juche Tower, see how every building ...

In this July 16, 2019, photo, a woman stands against the 170-meter-tall Tower of Juche Idea, center, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The word Juche is splashed across countless propaganda signs in ...