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On March 31 1982, Chairman Kim Jong Il made public the immortal classic work “On the Juche Idea”. The work is an immortal encyclopedia which comprehensively encapsulated and systematized in an all-round way the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung.

The Juche idea is an idea that the masses of the people are masters of the revolution and construction and they are also the motive force of them. In other words, it is the idea that man is the master of his destiny and he has the power to shape his destiny.

By establishing a man-centred philosophical idea and revolutionary theory and leadership method centred on the masses of the people, the Juche idea clearly indicates the way for successfully pushing ahead with the revolution and construction by relying on revolutionary and scientific ideological theories, strategy and tactics and methods however complicated the circumstances and conditions may be.

The DPRK applies the Juche idea in a comprehensive way. The image of the country, which demonstrates its might as a country of single-hearted unity, a socialist fortress, while performing miracles despite manifold challenges and difficulties, clearly proves the scientific accuracy, truthfulness and vitality of the Juche idea which identifies the masses of the people as the driving force of history and has opened up and advanced a new era of carving out their destiny independently by relying on their inexhaustible strength.

Therefore, the peoples of many countries in the world make extensive efforts to learn and disseminate the Juche idea with the passage of time.

The activities for the study and dissemination of the Juche idea, which had been conducted by individual pioneers, have been conducted briskly by Juche idea study organizations since the 1960s.

In April 1969, the first group for the study of Comrade Kim Il Sung’s works was formed by teachers and students of a higher normal school in Mali. Dozens of similar groups with diverse names were organized in more than 20 countries by the end of that year.

In the beginning of the 1970s, positive efforts were made to establish organized bodies capable of conducting the study and dissemination of the Juche idea on a continental and global scale.

In September 1976, an international scientific seminar on the Juche idea took place in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. The Pyongyang declaration on the establishment of the International Institute of the Juche Idea was adopted at the international seminar on the Juche idea held in the DPRK in September the following year, reflecting the requirements of the times, and an organizational committee for the establishment of the International Institute of the Juche Idea was formed.

The inaugural meeting of the International Institute of the Juche Idea held in Tokyo, Japan, on April 9 1978 adopted the inaugural declaration of the institute titled "The Juche idea is a sacred banner in the era of independence".

Before and after the establishment of the IIJI, Juche idea study groups were formed one after another in many other countries and a more regular system of study and dissemination was established according to continents, countries and regions decade after decade and from one century to the next.

The number of organizations and followers studying and disseminating the Juche idea increased and, at the same time, they conducted more positive activities.

A seminar on the creative Juche idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung was held in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, from December 20 to 22 in 1971. More than 90 international and regional seminars on the Juche idea have been held for over 50 years since then. Different countries and regions in the world conducted activities for the study and dissemination of the Juche idea, including seminars, lectures and short courses, on such significant occasions as the birth anniversaries of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

In September 2023, an international seminar on "Independence, sovereignty and social development" was held in Rome, Italy, under the sponsorship of the International Institute of the Juche Idea. In April 2024, an international seminar on the Juche idea for independence, justice and future of mankind took place in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 112th anniversary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.

The participants in the seminar unanimously stressed that the Juche idea propels the trend of global independence and leads mankind to the future of socialism and communism and expressed belief that the progressive mankind will invariably advance along the road of independence and justice and a new world free from exploitation, oppression and subjugation will surely be built as the great idea of the times illuminates the road ahead of them.