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Attraction and Vitality of Juche Idea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- The Juche idea has been disseminated worldwide century after century.
    The immortal idea fathered by President Kim Il Sung and developed and enriched by leader Kim Jong Il is the recognized international trend in the era of independence.
    The key point of the idea is that the popular masses are the master of revolution and construction and they have the strength to propel them. In other word, man is the master of his destiny and he has the ability to shape it.
    The truth, scientific accuracy and justness of the Juche idea, man-centered world outlook have been irrefutably proven in the course of the development of history and revolutionary practices and the desire of the progressive people around the world to study the Juche idea is growing intense day by day.
    In response to the requirement of the times, the international scientific symposium on the Juche idea held in September Juche 65 (1976) in the Capital of Madagascar put forward the study and dissemination of the Juche idea and its application as a common work of the world and stressed the need to found an international academic institution for its further development and specified this in its declaration.
    On April 9, 1978, the grand inaugural meeting of the International Institute of the Juche idea took place in Tokyo, Japan, in compliance with the unanimous will and demand of the adherents to the idea.
    The founding of the institute brought into being a core base for organized and purposeful activities for the study and propagation of the Juche idea worldwide, making the idea a global theory beyond the boundary of its mother country.
    Now, beside the institute, more than 1 100 organizations for the study of the Juche idea are active in 100 odd countries.
    It shows that the Juche idea is the source of invincible strength inspiring the progressives with courage and confidence in the victory of the global cause of independence and its attraction and vitality are growing day by day.