page_title: Juche Tower
hierarchical_section_title: Juche Tower
caption_attribution_description: The Tower of Juche Idea was completed in 1982 to commemorate Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday. The Juche Idea, the official state ideology, developed by the man himself, is a blend of Marxism-Leninism and Autarky.
context_page_description: The Juche Tower is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il-sung.
context_section_description: The Juche Tower (more formally, Tower of the Juche Ideology) is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il-sung.
caption: Juche Tower at night
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