58 Volume 2, Nomor 1, 2020 | RIR UNDERSTANDING JUCHE IDEOLOGY THROUGH PSYCHOLOGY OF PEACE AND CONFLICT IN NORTH KOREA Mega Nisfa Makhroja Collegium Civitas Email: meganisfa@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper examined moral justification due to Juche's ideology in North Korea as the main reason for the survival of the authoritarian regime and caused violence. By using Moral Justification analysist from Psychology of peace and conflict, this paper explain how Juche Ideology affected to Violence, How intervention toward north Korean Conflict from international society, and possible scenario to implemented in North Korea. However, North Korean conflict not only affected their national issue, but also international level. High number of Human Right Violation in this country can be understood by psychological of peace and conflict studies. Key words : Moral Justification, Juche, Psychology of Peace and Conflict, North Korea. INTRODUCTION Juche Ideology in Democratic People of Republic Korea or North Korea is the doctrine of self- reliance. Juche's idea meant that the masters of revolution and construction were the masses of the people and that they were also the driving force of the revolution and construction (Korea-DPR, n.d). Kim Il Sung, North Korean Leader since 1948, envisioned three specific applications of Juche philosophy: political and ideological independence, especially from the Soviet Union and China; economic self-reliance and self-sufficiency and viable national defense system (Grace Lee, 2003 pg 105). When this idea was implemented in the state philosophy, this doctrine wanted to emphasize that North Korea wanted to be independent in its own way, manage its own economy and society. Although in some aspects, poverty and hunger problems occurred but they were proud of the ideology held. Basically, this idea is the development of Stalin's teachings about communism, but then makes the values of autarchy important to control the power of communist leaders. The human rights conditions in North Korea based on the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (UN-COI) show that many human rights violations are excluded by the Kim Jong Un regime in all forms including but not limited to restrictions on freedom of expression, press freedom, free trade unions and organized political opposition(Humanitarian Vision, 2018). The Juche doctrine strengthens military capacity in order to gain international recognition with its nuclear weapons. North Korea plays psychological warfare to attract international sympathy with its nuclear power. All form inline with their aims to get more aid