What are the characteristics of the Juche idea?
The characteristics of the Juche idea that is fundamentally distinguished from all the preceding ideas is that it is the man-centred philosophical thought. That the Juche idea is the man-centred philosophical thought means that it newly raised the fundamental question of philosophy with a man at a centre and clarifies the viewpoint and stand toward the world with a man at a centre. First, the Juche idea raises newly the relationship between man and the world, the position and role of man in the world, as the fundamental question of philosophy and clarifies the fundamental principle that man is a master of everything and decides everything. Next, with a man at a centre, the Juche idea clarifies a new view on the world that the world is dominated and transformed by man and that the world is developed by man’s purposeful action and role in the direction of serving man and in accordance with his development. It clarifies a new view and stand of approaching the world proceeding from man’s i
