The NKNews (North Korean News) website -- which monitors developments in the secretive nation -- reports exclusively today (October 14, 2012) that the statues of Lenin and Karl Marx were removed from Kim Il-sung Square in the summer, but have never been replaced, indicating a change in the socioeconomic direction that North Korea is taking.
Communist die-hards Lenin and Marx had glared out over the square -- used for military parades and mass rallies in support of the North Korean regime -- for decades, despite the Workers' Party of Korea revising its charter in 1980 to replace their concepts with those of Kim Il-sung.
Communism in North Korea has been replaced by the home-grown philosophy summed up as "juche," meaning "the spirit of self-reliance."
NKNews said there are no indications as to why Marx and Lenin are being air-brushed out of North Korean history at this time, although this phenomenon does tie in with other recent changes that have been noticed in that country.
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