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The Juche calendar, named after the Juche ideology, was the system of year-numbering used in North Korea between 1997 and 2024. It begins with the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea. His birth year, 1912 in the Gregorian calendar, is "Juche 1" in the Juche calendar. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of ...
The Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang in 2014 depicting Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il (right), with visitors paying homage to the statues. [1]The North Korean cult of personality surrounding the Kim family [2] has existed in North Korea for decades and can be found in many examples of North Korean culture. [3]
North Korea rejected the de-Stalinization efforts of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev but avoided taking sides during the Sino-Soviet split. [47] North Korea was admitted to the Non-Aligned Movement in 1975 and has since presented itself as a leader of the Third World, promoting Juche as a model for developing countries to follow. [48] [49]
The group is apocalyptic [9] and messianic in character, [12] and has been described as a doomsday cult. [12]The group's founder and leader is variously referred to by church followers as "Chairman Lee (이 총회장)"; "the Chairman (회장)"; "the Promised Pastor (약속의 목자)"; "the One who Overcomes (이긴자)"; or "the Advocate (대언자)."
"We Will Go to Mount Paektu" is a 2015 North Korean light music song in praise of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un. [2] [3]The song is important politically, and its lyrics recount a highly symbolic trek onto Mount Paektu, important in North Korean propaganda, by Kim Jong Un.
In 1964, Yoo Jae-yeol and his family joined one of South Korea's many emerging end time pseudo-christian groups, the Hosaeng Prayer Center in Sangdo-dong, Seoul. Following their leader Kim Jong-gyu. Founded on January 4, 1964, this end time cult advertised the miraculous healing powers of their leader. [11]
Pulgasari [a] is an epic monster film [i] directed and produced by Shin Sang-ok in 1985 during his North Korean abduction.A co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is considered a remake of Bulgasari, a 1962 South Korean film that also depicts Bulgasari/Pulgasari, a creature from Korean folklore.
Sun Myung Moon was born Yong Myung Moon on 6 January 1920 [29] in modern-day North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea, at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. He was the second son in a farming family of thirteen children, [ 30 ] eight of whom survived. [ 16 ]