Juche

See also: juche and juché

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 주체(主體) (juche, “self-reliance”, literally “subject”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːt͡ʃeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -uːt͡ʃeɪ

Noun

Juche (uncountable)

1. the core component of Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, the state ideology of North Korea.
   • 1982 [1955 December 28], Kim Il-Sung, “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work”, in Kim Il-Sung – Works, volume 9, translation of original in Korean, pages 402-403:

     What is Juche in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party.

   • 2008, Don Baker, Korean Spirituality, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 147:

     Despite its rejection of theism and its political origins, there are several reasons for labeling Juche ideology a form of spirituality. […] According to Juche teachings, human beings only exist within societies.

Derived terms

• Juche Korea

Translations

North Korean self-reliance state ideology

• Arabic: زُوتْشِيَّة f (zūtšiyya)
• Bulgarian: чучхе f (čučhe)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主體思想 / 主体思想 (zh) (zhǔtǐ sīxiǎng), 主體 / 主体 (zh) (zhǔtǐ)

• Czech: Čučche f
• Esperanto: Ĵuĉe
• Estonian: chuch'e
• Finnish: juche-aate
• French: Juche (fr) m, Juché (fr) m, Djoutché m
• Georgian: ჩუჩხე (čučxe)
• German: Chuch'e f
• Hungarian: csúcse, dzsúcse
• Japanese: 主体 (ja) (しゅたい, shutai), チュチェ (chuche), 主体思想 (しゅたいしそう, shutai-shisō), チュチェ思想 (chuche-shisō)
• Korean: 주체(主體) (ko) (juche), 주체사상(主體思想) (juchesasang)
• Lithuanian: Čučhė
• Macedonian: Џуче f (Džuče)
• Persian: جوچه
• Polish: dżucze n
• Portuguese: juche (pt) m
• Romanian: Ciuce
• Russian: чучхе́ (ru) f (čučxé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Џуче f

  Roman: Džuče f

• Spanish: juche (es) m
• Ukrainian: чучхе f (čučxe)
• Vietnamese: tư tưởng chủ thể (思想主體), chủ thể (vi) (主體)

See also

• Kimilsungism
• Kimjongilism

Anagrams

• Cheju