What I understand about the Juche ideology, is that the exceptionalism of the Korean nation&#x2F;race is a fundamental part of it. Much as it was in Japan, &quot;racial purity&quot; was actually a traditional component of status in Korea. Such ideas are found in fascism, but I think basically everyone had such ideas in their culture&#x2F;society as a matter of course.<p>I was born in the US, but my mom&#x27;s side of the family is actually from North Korea. My grandfather somehow managed to prosper as a Korean, even in the Japanese occupation educational system, and became a doctor. He was even an entrepreneur, making money off of what we&#x27;d now call &quot;micro-lending&quot;. So when the communists came to power, grandfather could easily predict that the communists weren&#x27;t going to like him very much. (My mom and her younger brother were smuggled south in a freighter in a pitch black compartment.)<p>When you next watch &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; keep this in mind: The morality portrayed was basically the morality of the real world up until the 1700s, and then it only slowly started to improve. It&#x27;s going to be a long process. We&#x27;re still at it.