abstract:The Juche Idea, sometimes spelled Chuch'e (; ), is a political thesis formed by Kim Il-sung that states that the north Korean masses are the masters of the country's development. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Kim and other party theorists such as Hwang Jang-yop elaborated the Juche Idea into a set of principles that the North Korea government uses to justify its policy decisions.