To analyze the North-Korean government ideology, I borrowed the Franz Schurmann's pure ideology and practical ideology which he used for the analysis about Chinese Communist's ideology.
From the beginning of the North-Korean Government to 1970, their pure ideology was the Marxism-Leninism. The early practical ideology was the democratic revolutionary theory of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism.
In the 1950s, Juche thought appeared slowly while Kim Il-seong was struggling for power against the opponents. In the 1960s, Juche thought moved to practical ideology. In 1970s, Juche thought adopted the human-centered philosophical principle, Suryung(Leader) theory and was ready to be the pure ideology.
In the 1980's 6th Joseon Labour Party Conference, independently proclaiming Juche thought without the help of the words of Marxism-Leninism, it ranked up to the pure ideology. From then on, there were no pure ideology except Juche thought, but appeared the practical ideology for the protection of government system. There appeared lots of ideologies made on the purpose of practical ideology, for example, 1986's 'Joseon Prime Nationalism', 1991's theoretical 'Our Style Socialism', 1996's formal 'The Red Banner Thought', 1998's official 'the Big Powerful Country', Commonly the main purpose is not the change, but the maintaining the North Government System.
The change of pure ideology from Marxism-Leninism to Juche thought come out the purpose that North Korean Government wants to actualize the Socialism in the Korean Peninsula's actual realities. This can be found in the North Korean unification policy.
As her unification policy is the means of realizing the government ideology, the change of the government idea affects inevitably the unification policy.
The simple unification policy that North Korean system involve South Korea into the Socialism, it broke out the Korean War, but after failure, they proclaim South-Korean revolutionary theory admitting the independency of South revolution. With this, they proclaim strengthening of 3 revolution capacity. Eventually their South revolution theory is a part of their unification policy because of the purpose of realization of government ideology.
For the unification method, they proclaim the federal system meaning the united unification after pre-revolution of South Korea. Though this is for the progressive power in South, then they choose the method of federal system as the unification policy. We can regard the federal system as their best choice in the situation of confronting between South and North in the Korean Peninsula.
In the 6th Joseon Labor Party Conference, in 1980, Juche thought is declared as the government idea, and at the same time their federal system is completed to Confederal Democratic Republic of Koryo. The specific thing is the competed system, not the system in the transition period. It is thought that they admitted the reality of impossibility of victory in system competition against South.
As the world socialism has fallen, the North Korea gave birth to the practical ideology trying to sustain the government system, and in unification policy they proclaimed the federal system as the method of strengthening the authority of local government.
In conclusion, the North Korea developed Juche thought during the process of realizing the Socialism in the Korean Peninsula's actual realities. Finally the process histories of government ideology and unification policy have the same thread of connection.
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