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Moscow, Russian Federation
The DPRK is one of the few countries that has consequently followed the socialist path of development after the collapse of the socialist bloc. The construction of a "powerful and prosperous country" is carried out under the slogans of independence, protection of sovereignty, national dignity, and the fight against imperialism, which reflect the foundations of the national ideology of "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism", or the Juche ideas. Patriotism is the supporting structure of spiritual and moral education in the DPRK, aimed at complete execution of the instructions of the leader and the ruling party "at the cost of life." At different stages of North Korean statehood, different terms were used to denote the concept of patriotic education, such as "socialist patriotism", "Kimjongil patriotism", while the common element remained the leader, loyalty to whom is defined as the highest form of patriotism. The motherland is impossible without a leader, and, therefore, loyalty to the leader is loyalty to the motherland. From an early age, citizens of the DPRK are brought up to be ready to sacrifice their lives at any time at the call of the leader and the governing party. The theoretical justification for the dominance of extreme forms of patriotism is the Juche concept of the Korean revolution. This study is aimed to determine the functional ties between national ideology, patriotism and mass movements in the DPRK.
patriotism, DPRK, Juche, socialism, Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, mass movement, ideology
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