What are the characteristics of the Juche view of life?
They are, in one word, that it is the collectivist view of life that is based on the revolutionary view of a leader. The Juche view of life is the collectivist one that is different from the individualistic view. Views of life are divided into different views depending on how they deal with the basic issue. The basic issue of the view of life is the issue of relations between collective and individuals. Since the people live in social collective, it is the basic issue in the attitude and stand about life that how to think and approach the relationship between collective and individuals. This is the basic issue because this issue decides the character and contents of the view of life. Comrade Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people said. Living a worthwhile life for the society and the collective and spending one s whole life meaninglessly for one s own self-interest represent two fundamentally different attitudes towards life. There have been two contrary stands in the issue
