Pioneered by the Great Leader Kim Il-Sung, Juche is an ideology splintered off from the foundations of Socialist thought.

Juche can be translated to mean "Autonomy" or "Self-Reliance". Kim Il-Sung was primarily a Marxist-Leninist practitioner of socialist thought and created this method of thinking after his rise to power to make the revolution distinctly Korean. It holds the belief that individual is "the master of his destiny and that the North Korean masses are to act as the masters of the revolution and construction". The primary idea being that North Koreans are to establish their nation without the assistance or interference of other nations who would seek to destroy it. This idea is coupled with the notion that the Korean People cannot advance forward without the Party and its Great Leader.

In North Korea, Juche eventually replaced Marxist, Leninist thought in the 1980s. During the 1960's and 70's North Korea was firmly aligned with the Soviet Union and it was during this time standards of living in North Korea were at their highest. Toward the end of the Soviet Era, Juche begun to take over as North Korea could no longer be reliant upon an ally. This ended the true socialist system in North Korea and replaced it with a cult of personality surrounded around the Kim family and a wave of rampant Korean Nationalism.

Juche also places a great emphasis on combating Western Imperialism and implies that the West has been the primary aggressors in most of the worlds conflicts and that the safety and security of the Korean people rests with the Korean People's Army

In North Korea the system which started out with much promise has been tainted to alter the system to bias Kim family and the Korean People's Army rather than the people of North Korea turning the ideology into religion in some respects. A firm understanding of the Juche Idea is ingrained in the minds of all North Koreans and acts as a unifying force binding them together in unparalleled national unity.