North Korean media

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Chapters: Internet in North Korea, Newspapers published in North Korea, North Korean magazines, Photography in Korea, Propaganda in North Korea, Publishing companies of North Korea, Juche, Seoul City Sue, USS Pueblo, Media of North Korea, Korean Central News Agency, Eddie Adams, List of Kim Jong-il's titles, Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle, Yannis Kontos, Shisei Kuwabara, Hiroji Kubota, Radio jamming in Korea, David Douglas Duncan, Bert Hardy, No Motherland Without You, The Pyongyang Times, Song of General Kim Il-sung, .kp, Song of General Kim Jong-il, Rodong Sinmun, Arirang Festival, Voice of Korea, The Red Chapel, Censorship in North Korea, Kwangmyong, Mass games, Hiroshi Watanabe, Werner Bischof, John Rich, Sili Bank, Sea of Blood, Al Chang, Pyongyang Sinmun, Chollima, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Rimjingang, Naenara, Choson Sinbo, List of Korean photographers, Pyongyang Sally, List of newspapers in North Korea, Uriminzokkiri, List of North Korean news agencies, Museum of Photography, Seoul, The Chosun, Korea Camera Museum. Excerpt: Juche or Chuch'e (Korean pronunciation: ) is a Korean word meaning "main subject." In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), "Juche" refers specifically to a political thesis of Kim Il-sung, the Juche Idea, that identifies the Korean masses as the masters of the country's development. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Kim elaborated the Juche Idea into a set of principles that the government uses to justify its policy decisions. Among these are independence from great powers, a strong military posture, and reliance on Korean national resources. "Juche" has sometimes been translated in North Korean sources as "independent stand" or "spirit of self-reliance", and has also been interpreted as "always putting Korean things first." According to Kim Il-sung, the Juche Idea is based on the belief that "man is the master of everything and decides everything." North Korean sources trace the origins of Juche to the 1930s. According to these sources the earliest mention of Juche was in a June 30, 1930 speech by Kim Il-sung, who was then 18 years old. The authenticity of these early speeches, however, is disputed. The first known reference to Juche was a speech given by Kim Il-sung on December 28, 1955, titled "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work." In this speech, Kim urged party propagandists not to import ideas and customs from the Soviet Union, but to portray Korea as a revolutionary nation in its own right. He stated, "To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland". Kim focuses on the importance of education and learning Korean history. Through the education of Korean people's own history will it "stimulate their national pride and rouse the broad masses to revolutionary struggle". Kim talks throu