Current Events > North Korean news has some really weirdly specific recurring themes

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One of the weirdest is the idea that literally every country has an "Institute of the Juche Idea," which is pretty hard to believe considering Juche is very explicitly about North Korean isolationism and Kim cult of personality worship.

I've had fun Googling the various "IOJI" organizations that Korean Central News Agency cites, and universally they basically don't exist. The one that I did actually find had a single member.

So yeah, that's weird.
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what is juche

It's weird that the country who essentially brainwash their citizens say every country does it?
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Led-Zeppelin posted...

what is juche

It essentially means self-reliance. Its a core tenet of North Korean thought
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Another one

"Floral Baskets"

Basically, every non-First-World country leader will send Kim Jong Un a "floral basket" more or less monthly, and each and every one of them will get an article on KCNA.
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Here's a good one

Pyongyang, May 23 (KCNA) -- The Ethiopian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the Ethiopian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Ethiopia-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee issued a joint statement in support of the Panmunjom Declaration.

I mean, seriously
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