Architectural and cultural guide : Pyongyang : volume 2  Architectural and Cultural Guide - Pyongyang : Volume 2 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2319429B

  Author(s)

  Meuser, Philipp

  City

  Berlin 

  Country

  Germany 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9783869221878 

  Date of Publication

  2012 

  Publisher

  Dom publishers  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  239 

  Series

  Architectural and cultural guide : Pyongyang 2

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

  Subject

  Recreation / Leisure / Tourism

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Meuser, Philipp

  Publisher

  Dom publishers  

• Description

  Architectural and Cultural Guide - Pyongyang : Volume 2 The concept "juche" discussed briefly in the second volume accounts for the architecture. The term meaning simply "self-reliant" has broader, significant historical and political connotations. In a 1991 work on architecture parts of which are excerpted, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (d. 2011) wrote, "Juche architecture regards the masses' aspirations and demands as the sole criterion for the evaluation of beauty." Although this is standard Communist ideology, for North Korean leaders since the end of World War II, "juche" was a principle intended to develop a distinctive national identity apart from Soviet Russia which had been Korea's ally in the War against Japan occupying the Korean peninsula.