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Concept and Role of Inmin Daejung in North Korea: Focusing on Juche Philosophy
( Hyejin Kwon )
DOI 10.31780/jpu.2025.15.1.71

This paper examines the concept and role of Inmin Daejung (the masses of people) in Juche philosophy by analyzing articles published in North Korean philosophy magazines such as Philosophy Studies. North Korea emphasizes the unique nature of its socialism, which is centered on the masses instead of the classicism of other socialist systems, and this allowed it to survive the cascading collapse of socialist systems in the 1990s. In Juche philosophy, the masses are defined as the masters of social development and a social group that has the power to decide and achieve everything as the “subjects of revolution.” However, the ultimate goal that the masses-centered socialism seeks to accomplish is the “Kim-il-sung-Kim-jong-ilization of the whole society” with the masses transformed into Kim-il-sung-Kim-jong-ilists who faithfully follow the guidance of the leader, the supreme brain, of the sociopolitical organism group. The masses are not active agents, “the subjects of revolution,” in revolution and construction but passive objects, “the members carrying out the revolution”; eventually, the “complete socialist victory” referred to in Juche philosophy can be reached when all the masses are converted into Kim-il-sung-Kim-jong-ilists.

Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Research Methods
Ⅲ. The Concept of the Masses in Juche Philosophy
Ⅳ. Conclusion: From the “Subjects of Revolution” to the “Members Carrying Out the Revolution”
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