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North Korea
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The monument to the Juche Ideology
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The country is litterd with monuments, so it is fitting to show you some of the more impressive ones.
This religion does not require churches or cathedrals, temples or mosques, it does not demand synagogues or altars. This religion, instead, has constructed sites for worship in the way of gigantic statues, pictures of God which are impossible to escape or ignore, enormous museums and monuments which all praise the virtues ascribed to the late President. Together with the normal way of referring to a year, it has been decided that 1912, the birth year of the President, is year 1. All inhabitants of the country, even abroad, have a little pin on their chest, just where their heart is. A flower has been developed which is called Kimilsungia. But that is not all. Many of the monuments have a higher symbolism which is not directly visible. Most of them were erected on the occasion of a a decennial birthday of the Great Leader. In its construction, a reference to the leader was incorporated. For instance, the Monument to the Juche idea, a 150 metre high monster with a huge "flame" on top, was erected in the 70th birthday of the President. It has two sides with 17 stories, and two with 18, which added together make .... 70. The amount of bricks used in it, equals 25,550, which is the number of days the President lived until his 70th birthday. Similarly, the stone monument commemorating the last words the President wrote on the reunification of the country, has a base of 9.4 metres and a top of 7.7. These figures might seem absolutely random, but not to someone who knows that they were written on July 7, '94.
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