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 ...

A school in Russia's Far East has set up a club for teaching Juche, the state ideology of North Korea, in an apparent sign of ...

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, Dec 18 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday visited a mausoleum for his late father and grandfather Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung to pay tribute to his father, state media ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a mausoleum for his father Kim Jong-il and grandfather Kim Il-sung on Tuesday, to pay tribute to his father. State media images showed Kim at the Kumsusan ...

Had he not been born the son of Kim Il Sung—still North Korea's Great Leader ... The ideas that guided North Korea—from juche, or self-reliance, to songun, or “military first”, were ...

A paper shortage after the economy collapsed in the early 1990s led novels, a form that had been popular under Kim's father, Kim Il Sung ... the strictures of Kim's "Juche Art Theory", a set ...

Questions surround the early days of Kim Il-sung and his dynasty. 102-year-old Professor Kim Hyung-suk came from the same village, and met him as he was starting out on his rise to power.

The spy agency further reported that North Korea has stopped using its “juche” calendar—a year-numbering system honouring its late founder Kim Il-sung—and is intensifying efforts to solidify Mr Kim’s ...

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