North Korea is the weak link in the emerging coalition of authoritarian states, and the incoming president is uniquely ...

Under this calendar, Kim Il-sung's birth year, 1912, is considered Juche 1. The calendar was officially adopted in 1997, ...

A school in Russia's Far East has set up a club for teaching Juche, the state ideology of ... The ideology was developed by the North's founder Kim Il Sung as the country's guiding principle.

North Korea also uses the Juche Calendar, which came into effect in 1997. It starts with the birth of founder Kim Il-sung in April 1912. For example, the year 2017 is written as Juche 106 in state ...

The Juche calendar, which began in 1912, the year of Kim Il Sung’s birth, had been used for 27 years since the Kim Jong Il regime established it in 1997 to honour Kim Il-sung’s achievements ...

SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has ceased using its "juche," or self-reliance, calendar -- a system of year numbering symbolizing its late founder Kim Il-sung -- in what appears to be the ...