About Juche... it's more or less a sham ideology. North Korea's true ideology is a kind of race-based ultranationalism, similar in form to Imperial Japanese fascism.
There's a book called The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters which discusses this in greater detail.
Yep, Juche was made up to appease the Soviets, who wouldn't have been very keen to publicly support a quasi-fascist state. It still features heavily in external propaganda, but NK internal propaganda is pretty much all racist Korean ethnonationalism and Kim family personality cult.
About Juche... it's more or less a sham ideology. North Korea's true ideology is a kind of race-based ultranationalism, similar in form to Imperial Japanese fascism.
There's a book called The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters which discusses this in greater detail.
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