In April 2012 large portraits of [[Vladimir Lenin]] and [[Karl Marx]] were removed from [[Pyongyang]]'s Kim Il-sung Square, presumably on Kim Jong-un's orders. While this may signal an ideological change on the part of the regime, the Workers' Party stopped referring to North Korea as a [[Marxist-Leninist]] state decades ago, substituting Kim Il-sung's philosophy of self-reliance, known as ''[[Juche]]''.<ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NK02Dg01.html</ref> | In April 2012 large portraits of [[Vladimir Lenin]] and [[Karl Marx]] were removed from [[Pyongyang]]'s Kim Il-sung Square, presumably on Kim Jong-un's orders. While this may signal an ideological change on the part of the regime, the Workers' Party stopped referring to North Korea as a [[Marxist-Leninist]] state decades ago, substituting Kim Il-sung's philosophy of self-reliance, known as ''[[Juche]]''.<ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NK02Dg01.html</ref> |